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title: ‘Did you really never hear of the washerman’s donkey?’ asked the mon… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Did you really never hear of the washerman’s donkey?’ asked the monkey, who was enjoying himself immensely. Who acts: you, monkey. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 94

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‘Did you really never hear of the washerman’s donkey?’ asked the monkey, who was enjoying himself immensely.

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**Who acts:** you, monkey · **What happens:** not hear, ask, enjoy · **To what, where:** monkey, donkey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. 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), 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:pg3454:5:94
# text = ‘Did you really never hear of the washerman’s donkey?’ asked the monkey, who was enjoying himself immensely.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	washerman	washerman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	immensely	immensely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | of the washerman's donkey | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of donkey=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | the monkey |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **enjoy** | past · progressive | the monkey | donkey |  |  |  | immensely *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |

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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 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.

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