The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 98

‘Come a little this way,’ said the jackal, ‘and you will hear how beautifully they sing.’

Who acts: you, Jackal · What happens: come, say, hear, sing · To what, where: little, jackal · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Come	obl:unmarked
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jackal	det
11	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jackal	punct
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hear	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 hear	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	aux
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 beautifully	advmod
19	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	21 sing	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sing	nsubj
21	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive		a little	this way obl:unmarked	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the jackal		tree rules
3	hear	future	you			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	sing speech: express	present	Jackal		beautifully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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