The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 10
It was some time before he caught sight of any monkeys, and he often grew tired with watching for them, so that one hot day he fell fast asleep, in spite of all his efforts to keep awake.
Who acts: thing, council · What happens: be, catch, grow, watch, fall, keep · To what, where: time, sight, spite, monkeys, efforts
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 (thing, council), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 caught | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 monkeys | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 monkeys | det |
| 11 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grew | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 grew | advmod |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | conj |
| 17 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grew | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 watching | mark |
| 19 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 tired | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 watching | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fell | punct |
| 23 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 fell | mark |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 so | fixed |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 day | nummod |
| 26 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 day | amod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fell | nsubj |
| 29 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grew | conj |
| 30 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 asleep | advmod |
| 31 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fell | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 spite | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 spite | case |
| 34 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 efforts | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 efforts | det:predet |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 38 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 spite | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 keep | mark |
| 40 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 fell | advcl |
| 41 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 keep | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | thing | some time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | council | sight of any monkeys | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | council | often, tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | council not said here | for monkeys = monkey | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | council | spite of council's efforts | day | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location | ||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | council not said here | awake property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | sight | any monkeys | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | spite | council's efforts | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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