The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 53
“You are very kind, but I will leave it for you,” answered the monkey, and nothing more was said about the snake.
Who acts: You, monkey · What happens: be, leave, answer, say · To what, where: snake · 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 | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 kind | advmod |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 leave | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 leave | aux |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kind | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 monkey | det |
| 18 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 nothing | cc |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 answered | parataxis |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 said | advmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | aux:pass |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 nothing | acl |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 snake | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 snake | det |
| 27 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | future | the monkey = monkey | snake | for you | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme for you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the monkey | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · passive | about the snake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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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