--- title: ‘Well, I don’t like salt myself,’ said the monkey; ‘so if you will o… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well, I don’t like salt myself,’ said the monkey; ‘so if you will open your mouth I will throw this beautiful juicy kuyu into it,’ and, as he spoke, he pulled one off the branch just over his head. Who acts: I, you, noise. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, noise), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:5:30 # text = ‘Well, I don’t like salt myself,’ said the monkey; ‘so if you will open your mouth I will throw this beautiful juicy kuyu into it,’ and, as he spoke, he pulled one off the branch just over his head. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 8 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 27 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 28 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 juicy juicy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 kuyu kuyu X FW Foreign=Yes 26 obj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 43 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 obj _ _ 44 off off ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 just just ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 48 over over ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | I | salt | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the monkey | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **open** | future | you | your mouth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | | 4 | **throw** | future | I | juicy kuyu | | salt | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer kuyu=Theme into it=Result | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | noise | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pull** | past | noise | one | | noise's head | | off the branch | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme off branch=Initial\_Location | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/31/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/)