The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 93
Then he stood still and waited till the panther came up to him: ‘Jackal, where are my little ones?’ she asked.
Who acts: swarm, panther, Jackal · What happens: stand, wait, come up, be, ask · To what, where: swarm, little ones
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 (swarm, panther, Jackal), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 waited | cc |
| 6 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 panther | det |
| 9 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Jackal | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Jackal | punct |
| 16 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ones | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 ones | advmod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ones | cop |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ones | nmod:poss |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ones | amod |
| 22 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Jackal | appos |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 ones | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 ones | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 asked | nsubj |
| 26 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | swarm | then; still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | swarm not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come up | past | the panther | swarm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | my little ones | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Jackal | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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