The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 2

In old times this was not so; the jelly-fish had as hard a shell as any of them, but he lost it through his own fault, as may be seen in this story.

Who acts: this, jelly fish, he, his · What happens: not be, have, lose, see, fault · To what, where: shell, beach, own fault, story

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 (this, jelly fish, he, his), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 times	case
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 so	obl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 so	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 so	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 so	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fish	det
10	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fish	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 jelly	punct
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 so	parataxis
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 hard	advmod
15	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 shell	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 shell	det
17	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 any	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 had	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 any	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lost	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 lost	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lost	nsubj
25	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lost	obj
27	through	through	ADP	_	30 fault	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 fault	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fault	amod
30	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seen	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 seen	mark
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 seen	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 seen	aux:pass
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 lost	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 story	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 story	det
38	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seen	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 so	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	this			time	so property	tree rules
2	have	past	the jelly fish	a shell			as any	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient
3	lose	past	he	beach	his own fault			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	see	may · passive	he not said here		this story			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
5	fault		his = he					nom fault «act 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/2/