The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 12
At last one young monkey, bolder than the rest, stooped down and stroked the shining shell that the strange new creature wore on its back.
Who acts: strange new creature · What happens: stoop down, stroke, shine, wear · To what, where: rest, shining shell, back
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 (strange new creature), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 monkey | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 monkey | compound |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 monkey | amod |
| 5 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bolder | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bolder | punct |
| 7 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rest | det |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bolder | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stooped | punct |
| 12 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rest | acl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 stooped | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stroked | cc |
| 15 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bolder | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shell | det |
| 17 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 shell | amod |
| 18 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stroked | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 wore | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 creature | det |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 creature | amod |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 creature | amod |
| 23 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wore | nsubj |
| 24 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stroked | advcl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 back | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 back | nmod:poss |
| 27 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wore | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bolder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop down | participle | the rest not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stroke | past | the shining shell | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | wear | past | the strange new creature | rest's back | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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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