The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 58

“There is no credit in going after an elephant or a tiger,” replied the monkey stroking his chin, “they are so big they could not possibly get out of your way.

Who acts: credit, monkey, questions · What happens: be, go, reply, stroke, not get out · To what, where: chin, way · 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 (credit, monkey, questions), 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	_	16 replied	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 replied	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 credit	det
5	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 credit	acl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 elephant	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 elephant	det
10	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 tiger	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tiger	det
13	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 elephant	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
16	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 monkey	det
18	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 replied	obj
19	stroking	stroke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 monkey	acl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 chin	nmod:poss
21	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stroking	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 big	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 big	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 big	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 big	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 big	advmod
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 replied	parataxis
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 get	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 get	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 get	advmod
31	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	32 get	advmod
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 big	parataxis
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 way	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 way	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 way	nmod:poss
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	no credit		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go in a quote	gerund	no credit not said here			after a elephant or a tiger		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	past	the monkey					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stroke	gerund	the monkey not said here	credit's chin				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chin=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	present	questions = question				big property	tree rules
6	not get out in a quote	could	questions = question	your way			possibly 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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