The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 18

The monkey, seeing there was no help for it, did as he was bid; indeed he could not have resisted, as his hand was still in the turtle’s mouth.

Who acts: monkey, turtle, hand · What happens: see, be, do, bid, not resist · To what, where: help, turtle, mouth

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 (monkey, turtle, hand), 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	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seeing	punct
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 monkey	acl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 seeing	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 help	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 help	det
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 help	parataxis
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 bid	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bid	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bid	aux:pass
16	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 did	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 resisted	punct
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	23 resisted	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 resisted	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 resisted	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 resisted	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 resisted	aux
23	resisted	resist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 help	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 mouth	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 mouth	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 mouth	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 mouth	cop
29	still	still	ADV	_	34 mouth	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 mouth	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 turtle	det
32	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 mouth	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 turtle	case
34	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 resisted	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the monkey not said here		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the monkey	no help			for help	tree rules
3	do	past						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bid	past · passive		turtle				tree rules
5	not resist	could · perfect	turtle	no help not said here			indeed property	tree rules
6	is	past	turtle's hand		the turtle's mouth	still		tree rules

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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