The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 19
Delighted at having secured his prize, the turtle hastened back to the shore and plunged quickly into the water.
What happens: secure, hasten back, plunge · To what, where: prize, turtle, shore, water
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: 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 | Delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 secured | mark |
| 3 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 secured | aux |
| 4 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Delighted | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prize | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 secured | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turtle | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 turtle | det |
| 9 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prize | appos |
| 10 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 turtle | acl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 hastened | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shore | det |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hastened | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 plunged | cc |
| 16 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 secured | conj |
| 17 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 plunged | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plunged | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | gerund · perfect | turtle's prize | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition prize=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hasten back | participle | the turtle not said here | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination | ||||
| 3 | plunge | past | the water | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location |
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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