The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 15
The other apes, seeing that the turtle was not to be trifled with, ran off, leaving their young brother to his fate.
Who acts: other apes, turtle · What happens: see, not be, run off, leave, fate · To what, where: turtle, young brother, fate · 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 (other apes, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 apes | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apes | amod |
| 3 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 apes | acl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 trifled | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 turtle | det |
| 8 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trifled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 trifled | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 trifled | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 trifled | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trifled | aux:pass |
| 13 | trifled | trifle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seeing | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 trifled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 ran | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaving | punct |
| 19 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 ran | advcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 brother | amod |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 fate | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fate | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the other apes not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not is | past · passive | the turtle | trifle property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | the other apes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | the other apes not said here | monkeys's young brother | turtle's fate | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to fate=Recipient | |||
| 5 | fate | turtle | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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