The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 16
Then the turtle said to the monkey, ‘If you will be quiet, and do what I tell you, I won’t hurt you.
Who acts: turtle, you, I · What happens: say, be, do, tell, not hurt · To what, where: monkey, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turtle, you, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 turtle | det |
| 3 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 monkey | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 monkey | det |
| 7 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quiet | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 quiet | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 quiet | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 quiet | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 quiet | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 quiet | cop |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 quiet | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurt | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 hurt | nsubj |
| 24 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 hurt | aux |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 hurt | advmod |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tell | advcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 hurt | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the turtle | the monkey | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to monkey=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | future | you | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not hurt | future | I | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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