The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 7

“If you don’t give it to me at once I will take your sardine,” replied the monkey, who did not believe her.

Who acts: you, monkey · What happens: not give, take, reply, not believe · To what, where: razor, monkey, sardine · 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), 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 give	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 give	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 replied	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	obl
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	14 take	mark
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 take	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 take	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	advcl
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sardine	nmod:poss
16	sardine	sardine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
19	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 monkey	det
21	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 replied	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 believe	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 believe	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 believe	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 believe	advmod
26	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 monkey	acl:relcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 believe	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you	razor	the monkey = monkey		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient
2	take in a quote	future	the monkey = monkey	your sardine		once property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sardine=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	past	the monkey				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not believe	past · do-support	the monkey	monkey			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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