The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 23
It was during one of these attacks of sadness that a jelly-fish happened to swim by.
Who acts: fit, attacks · What happens: be, happen, swim, attack · To what, where: sadness
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 (fit, attacks), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 3 | during | during | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 attacks | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 attacks | det |
| 7 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sadness | case |
| 9 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attacks | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fish | det |
| 12 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fish | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 jelly | punct |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 attacks | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 swim | mark |
| 17 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 happened | xcomp |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 swim | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fit | during one | of this attacks of sadness | tree rules | |||
| 2 | happen | past | this attacks of sadness | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swim | to-infinitive | this attacks of sadness not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | attack | sadness | nom attack «act 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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