The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 45

But the monkey only answered: “If you are gong to talk such nonsense I won’t walk with you.”

Who acts: monkey, you · What happens: answer, be, talk, not walk · To what, where: gong, such nonsense · 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 (monkey, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 answered	advmod
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 gong	punct
8	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 gong	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 gong	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gong	cop
11	gong	gong	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 talk	mark
13	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gong	acl
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nonsense	amod
15	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talk	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 walk	nsubj
17	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 walk	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 walk	advmod
19	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nonsense	acl:relcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 walk	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gong	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 gong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the monkey			tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	gong		tree rules
3	talk in a quote	to-infinitive	the monkey not said here	such nonsense		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient
4	not walk in a quote	future	the monkey = monkey	such nonsense not said here	with you	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nonsense=Trajectory

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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