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title: So the monkey cocked his eye as much as to say: "If you can squeeze… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the monkey cocked his eye as much as to say: "If you can squeeze a flint-stone to make the juice come out of it, you can squeeze me." Who acts: monkey, you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 94

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So the monkey cocked his eye as much as to say: "If you can squeeze a flint-stone to make the juice come out of it, you can squeeze me."

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**Who acts:** monkey, you · **What happens:** cock, say, squeeze, make, come out · **To what, where:** eye, flint stone, juice, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:30:94
# text = So the monkey cocked his eye as much as to say: "If you can squeeze a flint-stone to make the juice come out of it, you can squeeze me."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cocked	cock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cock** | past | the monkey | crud's eye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **squeeze** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | you | a flint stone |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the juice |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset juice=Product |
| 5 | **come out** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of stone; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **squeeze** *in a quote* | can | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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