The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 30
At first he felt as if his liver was already being taken from his body, but soon he began to wonder if there was no means of escaping this terrible death, and at length he invented a plan which he thought would do.
Who acts: way, no, plan · What happens: feel, take, begin, wonder, be, escape · To what, where: liver, body, terrible death, plan, length
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 (way, no, plan), 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 | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 felt | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 taken | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 taken | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 liver | nmod:poss |
| 8 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 taken | advmod |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 felt | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 began | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 wonder | mark |
| 22 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 means | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 means | expl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 means | cop |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 means | nsubj |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wonder | ccomp |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 escaping | mark |
| 29 | escaping | escape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 means | advcl |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 death | det |
| 31 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 death | amod |
| 32 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 escaping | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 invented | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 invented | cc |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 length | case |
| 36 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 invented | obl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 invented | nsubj |
| 38 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 plan | det |
| 40 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 invented | obj |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 thought | nsubj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 thought | nsubj |
| 43 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 plan | acl:relcl |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 do | aux |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 thought | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | way | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | way's liver | way's body | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from body=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | way | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | to-infinitive | way not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | no | there | mean property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | escape | gerund | no not said here | this terrible death | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | invent | past | way | a plan | length | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result | |||
| 8 | think speech: other | past | a plan | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | do | would | a plan not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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