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title: Of course the panther had not the least idea what the jackal meant b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 88

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Of course the panther had not the least idea what the jackal meant by this, and only repeated, ‘Jackal, bring out my children.’

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**Who acts:** least idea · **What happens:** have, jackal, mean, repeat, bring out · **To what, where:** least idea, jackal, children

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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 (least idea), 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:pg5615:34:88
# text = Of course the panther had not the least idea what the jackal meant by this, and only repeated, ‘Jackal, bring out my children.’
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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