The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 30

‘Well, I don’t like salt myself,’ said the monkey; ‘so if you will open your mouth I will throw this beautiful juicy kuyu into it,’ and, as he spoke, he pulled one off the branch just over his head.

Who acts: I, you, noise · What happens: not like, say, open, throw, speak, pull · To what, where: salt, monkey, mouth, juicy kuyu, one, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, noise), 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	_	7 like	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 like	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 like	advmod
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 like	obj
9	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 like	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monkey	det
14	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 open	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 open	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 open	advmod
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 open	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 open	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 open	aux
21	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouth	nmod:poss
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 open	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 throw	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 throw	aux
26	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 open	conj
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 kuyu	nsubj
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 juicy	amod
29	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 kuyu	amod
30	kuyu	kuyu	X	Foreign=Yes	26 throw	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 throw	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ’	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 open	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 pulled	cc
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 and	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 spoke	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 spoke	nsubj
39	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 pulled	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 spoke	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 pulled	nsubj
42	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 pulled	obj
44	off	off	ADP	_	46 branch	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 branch	det
46	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pulled	obl
47	just	just	ADV	_	50 head	advmod
48	over	over	ADP	_	50 head	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 head	nmod:poss
50	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pulled	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	I	salt			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the monkey			tree rules
3	open	future	you	your mouth			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
4	throw	future	I	juicy kuyu	salt		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer kuyu=Theme into it=Result
5	speak speech: other	past	noise				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pull	past	noise	one	noise's head	off the branch	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme off branch=Initial_Location

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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