The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 11

By-and-by some apes, who had been peeping at him from the tops of the trees, where they had been carefully hidden from the turtle’s eyes, stole noiselessly down, and stood round staring at him, for they had never seen a turtle before, and did not know what to make of it.

Who acts: apes, trees · What happens: peep, hide, steal, stand, stare, not see · To what, where: tops, trees, eyes, turtle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (apes, trees), 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	By	by	ADP	_	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 By	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 apes	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 apes	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 apes	det
7	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 -	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 peeping	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 peeping	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 peeping	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 peeping	aux
12	peeping	peep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 apes	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 peeping	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 tops	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tops	det
17	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 peeping	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 trees	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trees	det
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tops	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hidden	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 hidden	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hidden	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hidden	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 hidden	aux:pass
26	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	27 hidden	advmod
27	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 trees	acl
28	from	from	ADP	_	32 eyes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 turtle	det
30	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eyes	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 turtle	case
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hidden	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stole	punct
34	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 peeping	parataxis
35	noiselessly	noiselessly	ADV	_	36 down	advmod
36	down	down	ADV	_	34 stole	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stood	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stood	cc
39	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stole	conj
40	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 stood	xcomp
41	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 round	advcl
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 staring	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 seen	punct
45	for	for	SCONJ	_	49 seen	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 seen	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 seen	aux
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 seen	advmod
49	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 stood	conj
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 turtle	det
51	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 seen	obj
52	before	before	ADV	_	49 seen	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 know	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 know	cc
55	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 know	aux
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 know	advmod
57	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 stood	parataxis
58	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	60 make	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 make	mark
60	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 know	ccomp
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 it	case
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 make	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 By	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	peep	past · perfect · progressive	some apes		the tops of the trees	at ape	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	hide	past · perfect · passive		trees = tree	the turtle's eyes	carefully property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from eye=Beneficiary
3	steal	past				down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past				round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stare	gerund				at ape	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
6	not see	past · perfect	trees = tree	a turtle		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus
7	not know	past · do-support					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	make	to-infinitive				of thing	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product

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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