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title: “If you have eaten it I shall take this barrel of meal in exchange,”… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “If you have eaten it I shall take this barrel of meal in exchange,” replied the monkey; and he walked off with the barrel under his arm. Who acts: you, monkey, fish. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 15

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“If you have eaten it I shall take this barrel of meal in exchange,” replied the monkey; and he walked off with the barrel under his arm.

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**Who acts:** you, monkey, fish · **What happens:** eat, take, reply, walk off · **To what, where:** baker, barrel, exchange, arm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, monkey, fish), 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:pg3282:36:15
# text = “If you have eaten it I shall take this barrel of meal in exchange,” replied the monkey; and he walked off with the barrel under his arm.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
18	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect | you | baker |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | shall | the monkey *= monkey* | this barrel of meal |  | exchange |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent barrel=Value in exchange=Location |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **walk off** | past | fish |  |  | fish's arm |  | with the barrel | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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