The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 25

“I don’t WANT another barrel, I want THAT one,” answered the monkey sternly.

Who acts: monkey · What happens: not want, want, 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	_	5 WANT	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 WANT	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 WANT	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 WANT	advmod
5	WANT	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answered	ccomp
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 barrel	det
7	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 WANT	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 WANT	conj
11	THAT	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 WANT	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 WANT	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monkey	det
17	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
18	sternly	sternly	ADV	_	15 answered	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not want in a quote	present · do-support	the monkey = monkey	another barrel		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot barrel=Theme
2	want in a quote	present	the monkey = monkey	that one		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	the monkey		sternly property	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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