The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 59

‘What do you mean?’ asked the shark; but the monkey, who now understood the whole plot, did not answer at once, for he was considering what he should say.

Who acts: you, monkey, man · What happens: mean, ask, understand, not answer, consider, say · To what, where: shark, whole plot · 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 (you, monkey, man), 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 mean	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shark	det
10	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 understood	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 understood	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monkey	det
14	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 understood	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 understood	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 understood	nsubj
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 understood	advmod
18	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 plot	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 plot	amod
21	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 understood	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 answer	punct
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 answer	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 answer	advmod
25	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 understood	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 answer	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 considering	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 considering	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 considering	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 considering	aux
32	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 answer	advcl
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 say	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 say	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 say	aux
36	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 considering	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	you not said here	the shark		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shark=Recipient
3	understand	past	the monkey	the whole plot	now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plot=Stimulus
4	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	the monkey not said here			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	consider	past · progressive	man			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	say speech: assert	should	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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