The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 116

“Give me back the end of my tail,” he roared, “or I will take one of your razors.”

Who acts: you, Monkey, tricks · What happens: give back, roar, take · To what, where: end, tricks, one

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Monkey, tricks), 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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	back	back	ADP	_	2 Give	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 roared	nsubj
13	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 take	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Give	conj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 take	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 razors	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 razors	nmod:poss
23	razors	razor	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give back in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the end of my tail	the only creature's tricks = trick	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient end=Theme
2	roar	past	Monkey			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	take in a quote	future	the only creature's tricks = trick	one of your razors		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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