The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 1
Children must often have wondered why jelly-fishes have no shells, like so many of the creatures that are washed up every day on the beach.
Who acts: jelly fishes · What happens: wonder, have, wash up · To what, where: Children, shells, many creatures, beach
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jelly fishes), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wondered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wondered | aux |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 wondered | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wondered | aux |
| 5 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 have | advmod |
| 7 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fishes | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 jelly | punct |
| 9 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wondered | advcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 shells | det |
| 12 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 creatures | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 creatures | case |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 many | advmod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 creatures | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 creatures | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 creatures | det |
| 19 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wondered | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 washed | aux:pass |
| 22 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 washed | compound:prt |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 washed | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 beach | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 beach | det |
| 28 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 washed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | must · perfect · passive | Children | like the many creatures; often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | jelly fishes | no shells | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wash up | present · passive | the many creatures | the beach | day | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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