The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 15

“If you have eaten it I shall take this barrel of meal in exchange,” replied the monkey; and he walked off with the barrel under his arm.

Who acts: you, monkey, fish · What happens: eat, take, reply, walk off · To what, where: baker, barrel, exchange, arm · 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 (you, monkey, fish), 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	_	18 replied	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 eaten	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 eaten	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 replied	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eaten	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 take	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	ccomp
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 barrel	det
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 meal	case
13	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 barrel	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 exchange	case
15	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eaten	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct
18	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 monkey	det
20	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 replied	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 walked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 walked	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 walked	nsubj
24	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 replied	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 walked	compound:prt
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 barrel	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 barrel	det
28	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walked	obl
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 arm	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 arm	nmod:poss
31	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect	you	baker			tree rules
2	take in a quote	shall	the monkey = monkey	this barrel of meal	exchange		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent barrel=Value in exchange=Location
3	reply speech: assert	past	the monkey				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	walk off	past	fish		fish's arm	with the barrel	vn resign-10.11-2 «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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