The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 24
At that time jelly-fishes had shells.
Who acts: time jelly fishes · What happens: have · To what, where: shells
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 (time jelly fishes), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 fishes | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fishes | nsubj |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fishes | compound |
| 4 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fishes | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 jelly | punct |
| 6 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | time jelly fishes | shells | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=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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