The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 14
With one sweep he seized the monkey’s hand in his mouth, and held it tight, in spite of every effort to pull it away.
Who acts: turtle · What happens: seize, hold, pull away, spite · To what, where: hand, mouth, spite, effort
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 (turtle), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 sweep | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sweep | nummod |
| 3 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 monkey | det |
| 7 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 monkey | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 held | cc |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 held | obj |
| 17 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 15 held | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spite | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 spite | case |
| 20 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 effort | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 effort | det |
| 23 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spite | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 pull | mark |
| 25 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 held | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pull | obj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 pull | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | turtle | the monkey's hand | turtle's mouth | with one sweep | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||
| 2 | hold | past | turtle not said here | hand | spite of every effort | tight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in spite=Location | ||
| 3 | pull away | to-infinitive | turtle not said here | hand | away property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | spite | every effort | 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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