The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 73
‘So you think I am a washerman’s donkey?’ said the monkey to the shark, when the story was ended.
Who acts: you, I, story · What happens: think, be, say · To what, where: donkey, monkey, shark · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, story), 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 donkey | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 donkey | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 washerman | det |
| 8 | washerman | washerman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 donkey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 washerman | case |
| 10 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monkey | det |
| 15 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 shark | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shark | det |
| 18 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ended | punct |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 ended | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 story | det |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ended | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ended | cop |
| 24 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shark | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a washerman's donkey | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the monkey | the shark | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent monkey=Topic to shark=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the story | ended property | tree rules |
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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