The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 27

‘Oh, none at all,’ replied the jelly-fish, ‘but your liver is the only thing that will cure our queen, and how can we get at it without killing you?

Who acts: none, liver, only thing, we · What happens: reply, be, cure, get, kill · To what, where: jelly fish, only thing, queen, liver, you

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 (none, liver, only thing, we), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 none	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 none	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 replied	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 none	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 none	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 none	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fish	det
11	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fish	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 jelly	punct
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thing	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 thing	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 thing	cc
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 liver	nmod:poss
18	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thing	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thing	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thing	det
21	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fish	appos
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 cure	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 cure	aux
25	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thing	acl:relcl
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 queen	nmod:poss
27	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cure	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 get	cc
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 get	advmod
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	obl
36	without	without	SCONJ	_	37 killing	mark
37	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 get	advcl
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 killing	obj
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	none	the jelly fish		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fish=Topic
2	is a	present	your liver	the only thing		tree rules
3	cure	future	the only thing	our queen		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer queen=Source
4	get	can	we		liver	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	kill	gerund	we not said here	you		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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