The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 13
The movement, gentle though it was, woke the turtle.
Who acts: movement · What happens: be, wake · To what, where: turtle
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 (movement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:2767): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 movement | det |
| 2 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gentle | punct |
| 4 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woke | advcl |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 it | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gentle | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gentle | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gentle | punct |
| 9 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 turtle | det |
| 11 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | movement | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wake | past | the movement | the turtle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent turtle=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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