The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 79

“Sir Monkey,” she said, “you are certainly a very good climber, but now that you have eaten so much, I am quite sure you would never be able to turn one of your somersaults.”

Who acts: few, you, your · What happens: say, be, eat, not be, turn, somersault · To what, where: good climber, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, you, your), 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	_	3 Monkey	punct
2	Sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Monkey	compound
3	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Monkey	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Monkey	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 climber	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 climber	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 climber	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 climber	cop
12	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	16 climber	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 climber	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 climber	amod
16	climber	climber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eaten	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 eaten	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 eaten	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 eaten	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 eaten	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 eaten	aux
23	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	23 eaten	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sure	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 sure	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 sure	cop
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 sure	advmod
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eaten	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 able	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 able	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 able	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 able	cop
35	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sure	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 turn	mark
37	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 able	xcomp
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 turn	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 somersaults	case
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 somersaults	nmod:poss
41	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 one	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	few				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	you	a good climber		certainly property	tree rules
3	eat in a quote	present · perfect	you		now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	few			sure property	tree rules
5	not is in a quote	would	you			able property	tree rules
6	turn in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	one of your somersaults			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme
7	somersault in a quote		your				nom somersault «act intransitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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