The Aesop for Children, Jupiter and the Monkey, sentence 7

"Laugh if you will," said the Mother Monkey. "

Who acts: you, Mother Monkey · What happens: laugh, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Jupiter and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mother Monkey), 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 Laugh	punct
2	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 will	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 will	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Laugh	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Laugh	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Laugh	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Laugh	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Monkey	det
10	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Monkey	compound
11	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Laugh	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh in a quote	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Mother Monkey						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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