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title: “Sir Monkey,” she said, “you are certainly a very good climber, but… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sir Monkey,” she said, “you are certainly a very good climber, but now that you have eaten so much, I am quite sure you would never be able to turn one of your somersaults.” Who acts: few, you, your. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, with its de
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 79

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“Sir Monkey,” she said, “you are certainly a very good climber, but now that you have eaten so much, I am quite sure you would never be able to turn one of your somersaults.”

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**Who acts:** few, you, your · **What happens:** say, be, eat, not be, turn, somersault · **To what, where:** good climber, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, you, your), 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:pg2435:32:79
# text = “Sir Monkey,” she said, “you are certainly a very good climber, but now that you have eaten so much, I am quite sure you would never be able to turn one of your somersaults.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	climber	climber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | few |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a good climber |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  | now |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | few |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **turn** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one of your somersaults |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 7 | **somersault** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom somersault «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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