The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 22
“If I can’t get my barrel of meal, I shall take one of your children,” answered the monkey.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: not get, take, answer · To what, where: barrel, one · 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 (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 | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 barrel | nmod:poss |
| 8 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 meal | case |
| 10 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 barrel | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 children | nmod:poss |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 monkey | det |
| 23 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 answered | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | the monkey = monkey | my barrel of meal | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer barrel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | shall | the monkey = monkey | one of your children | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the monkey | tree rules |
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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