The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 20
He swam faster than he had ever done before, and soon reached the royal palace.
Who acts: turtle · What happens: swim, do, reach · To what, where: royal palace
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 swam | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 done | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 done | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 done | advmod |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 faster | advcl |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 done | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reached | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 reached | advmod |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swam | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 15 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 palace | amod |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | turtle | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | turtle | ever | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | reach | past | turtle not said here | the royal palace | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
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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