The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 94

‘Did you really never hear of the washerman’s donkey?’ asked the monkey, who was enjoying himself immensely.

Who acts: you, monkey · What happens: not hear, ask, enjoy · To what, where: monkey, donkey · 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), 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 hear	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 hear	advmod
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 donkey	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 washerman	det
9	washerman	washerman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 donkey	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 washerman	case
11	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 monkey	det
16	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 enjoying	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 enjoying	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 enjoying	aux
20	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 monkey	acl:relcl
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 enjoying	obj
22	immensely	immensely	ADV	_	20 enjoying	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · do-support	you			of the washerman's donkey	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of donkey=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past			the monkey		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient clause=Topic
3	enjoy	past · progressive	the monkey	donkey		immensely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus

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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