The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 21

Shouts of joy broke forth from the attendants when he was seen approaching, and some of them ran to tell the queen that the monkey was there, and that before long she would be as well as ever she was.

Who acts: Shouts, turtle, some, monkey, queen · What happens: break, see, approach, run, tell, be · To what, where: turtle, queen, joy · 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 (Shouts, turtle, some, monkey), 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	Shouts	shout	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broke	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 joy	case
3	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shouts	nmod
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 broke	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 attendants	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 attendants	det
8	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broke	obl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 seen	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux:pass
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 broke	advcl
13	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 seen	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ran	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ran	cc
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 ran	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 some	nmod
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tell	mark
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ran	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 queen	det
23	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 there	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 monkey	det
26	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 there	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 there	cop
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 tell	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 would	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 would	cc
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 would	nsubj
32	before	before	ADV	_	33 long	advmod
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 would	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 would	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	ccomp
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 as	cop
37	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	42 was	advmod
38	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 as	fixed
39	as	as	ADP	_	37 as	fixed
40	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 as	fixed
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 was	nsubj
42	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 would	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	break	past	Shouts of joy			from the attendants; forth property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from attendant=Co-Patient
2	see	past · passive		turtle			tree rules
3	approach	gerund	turtle not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	past	some				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	some not said here		the queen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient
6	is	past	the monkey			there property	tree rules
7	is	infinitive				as property	tree rules
8	be	past	queen				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	shout			joy			nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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