The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 88
Of course the panther had not the least idea what the jackal meant by this, and only repeated, ‘Jackal, bring out my children.’
Who acts: least idea · What happens: have, jackal, mean, repeat, bring out · To what, where: least idea, jackal, children
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (least idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 panther | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 panther | det |
| 4 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 idea | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 idea | amod |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 jackal | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jackal | det |
| 12 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 idea | nmod |
| 13 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 jackal | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 meant | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 repeated | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 repeated | cc |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 repeated | advmod |
| 19 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 had | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Jackal | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Jackal | punct |
| 22 | Jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 repeated | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bring | punct |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 repeated | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 bring | compound:prt |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 children | nmod:poss |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bring | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the least idea | of the panther | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | jackal | the least idea | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mean | participle | the jackal not said here | by this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | repeat | participle | Jackal | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | bring out | infinitive | my children | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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