The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 3
The sea-queen Otohime, whom you read of in the story of Uraschimatoro, grew suddenly very ill.
Who acts: you, sea queen · What happens: read, grow · To what, where: story
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 (you, sea queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sea | punct |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | Otohime | Otohime | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 whom | punct |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 queen | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 read | nsubj |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 whom | acl:relcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 read | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 story | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 read | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Uraschimatoro | case |
| 15 | Uraschimatoro | Uraschimatoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 story | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 ill | advmod |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 ill | advmod |
| 20 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grew | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | you | the story of Uraschimatoro | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the sea queen | ill property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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