More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 94

So the monkey cocked his eye as much as to say: "If you can squeeze a flint-stone to make the juice come out of it, you can squeeze me."

Who acts: monkey, you · What happens: cock, say, squeeze, make, come out · To what, where: eye, flint stone, juice, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 cocked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cocked	nsubj
4	cocked	cock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eye	nmod:poss
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cocked	obj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cocked	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 say	mark
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 much	acl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 squeeze	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 squeeze	punct
14	If	if	SCONJ	_	17 squeeze	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 squeeze	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 squeeze	aux
17	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cocked	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stone	det
19	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stone	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 flint	punct
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 squeeze	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 juice	det
25	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
26	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 squeeze	advcl
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 squeeze	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 squeeze	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 squeeze	aux
33	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 squeeze	parataxis
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 squeeze	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 squeeze	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 squeeze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cock	past	the monkey	crud's eye		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	squeeze a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	a flint stone		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
4	make in a quote	to-infinitive		the juice		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset juice=Product
5	come out in a quote	present	you not said here		of stone; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	squeeze in a quote	can	you	me		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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