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title: So the jackal came up to the panther, and asked politely, ‘Panther,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the jackal came up to the panther, and asked politely, ‘Panther, would you like me to look after your children while you are out hunting?’ Who acts: jackal, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 75

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So the jackal came up to the panther, and asked politely, ‘Panther, would you like me to look after your children while you are out hunting?’

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**Who acts:** jackal, you · **What happens:** come up, ask, like, look, hunt · **To what, where:** panther, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (jackal, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:34:75
# text = So the jackal came up to the panther, and asked politely, ‘Panther, would you like me to look after your children while you are out hunting?’
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | the jackal |  |  | the panther |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to panther=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  | Panther |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | would | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after your children |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hunt** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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