The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 60

“This is the second time I have lost a sheep,” the man said to the monkey; “it will be the worse for the thief when I catch him, I can tell you.”

Who acts: This, man, sheep · What happens: be, lose, say, catch, tell · To what, where: second time, sheep, monkey, puma · 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 (This, man, sheep), 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 time	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 time	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 time	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sheep	det
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 monkey	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 monkey	det
19	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 worse	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 worse	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 worse	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 worse	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 worse	det
26	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 tell	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 thief	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thief	det
29	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 worse	obl
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 catch	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 catch	nsubj
32	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 tell	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 catch	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 catch	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 tell	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 tell	aux
37	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 tell	iobj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This	the second time			tree rules
2	lose in a quote	present · perfect	the man = man	a sheep			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the man		the monkey		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to monkey=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	future	sheep			for the thief; bad property	tree rules
5	catch in a quote	present	the man = man	puma			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the man = man		the monkey = monkey		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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