The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 34
“Do you think you have the stag to deal with?” asked the monkey, laughing.
Who acts: you, monkey · What happens: think, have, deal, ask, laugh · To what, where: stag · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stag | det |
| 8 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 deal | mark |
| 10 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stag | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 deal | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monkey | det |
| 16 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laughing | punct |
| 18 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 asked | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | the stag | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Patient | ||||
| 3 | deal in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the stag not said here | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the monkey | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | laugh | gerund | the monkey not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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