The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 10

“That must be rather dry,” said the monkey, “try my fish”; and the man did not need twice telling.

Who acts: That, monkey, man · What happens: be, say, try, not need, tell · To what, where: fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, monkey, man), 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	_	6 dry	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 dry	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dry	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dry	cop
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 dry	advmod
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dry	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 dry	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fish	nmod:poss
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 try	obj
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 need	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 need	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 need	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 need	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 need	advmod
24	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
25	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 telling	advmod
26	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 need	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	must	That		dry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the monkey			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try in a quote	infinitive		my fish		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Eventuality
4	not need	past · do-support	the man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	the man not said here		twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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 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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