The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 81

“Your monkey and your dog could talk, madam,” said he; “are you more astonished at us than at them?”

Who acts: monkey, dog, you · What happens: talk, say, be · To what, where: madam · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, dog, you), 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	_	8 talk	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 monkey	nmod:poss
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dog	cc
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dog	nmod:poss
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 monkey	conj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	aux
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 madam	punct
10	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 astonished	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 astonished	punct
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 astonished	cop
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 astonished	nsubj
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 astonished	advmod
20	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 astonished	obl
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 them	case
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 astonished	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 astonished	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	could	Your monkey and your dog	madam		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: ask	past	dog			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	you		at us; than monkey; astonished 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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