The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 96
The panther looked about, and then inquired, ‘But where?
Who acts: panther · What happens: look, inquire
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 (panther), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 panther | det |
| 2 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 inquired | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 inquired | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 inquired | advmod |
| 8 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 where | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 where | punct |
| 11 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 where | cc |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 inquired | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the panther | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | participle | the panther not said here | then | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/96/