The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 31

For a few days he pretended to be gay and happy as before, but when the sun went in, and rain fell in torrents, he wept and howled from dawn to dark, till the turtle, who was his head keeper, heard him, and came to see what was the matter.

Who acts: way, sun, rain, turtle · What happens: pretend, be, go in, fall, weep, howl · To what, where: torrents, dark, head keeper, way, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sun, rain, turtle), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pretended	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pretended	nsubj
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 gay	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 gay	cop
9	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pretended	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 happy	cc
11	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gay	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 before	case
13	before	before	ADV	_	9 gay	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 went	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	conj
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
23	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 torrents	case
26	torrents	torrent	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fell	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wept	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wept	nsubj
29	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 howled	cc
31	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 dawn	case
33	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 howled	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 dark	case
35	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 howled	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 turtle	punct
37	till	till	ADP	_	39 turtle	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 turtle	det
39	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 howled	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 keeper	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 keeper	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 keeper	cop
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 keeper	nmod:poss
44	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 keeper	compound
45	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 turtle	appos
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 heard	punct
47	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 heard	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 came	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 came	cc
51	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 see	mark
53	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 came	advcl
54	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	57 matter	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 matter	cop
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 matter	det
57	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 see	ccomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	way				day		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	way not said here					gay property	tree rules
3	be		way not said here						tree rules
4	go in	past	the sun						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	rain			torrents			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in torrent=Location
6	weep	past	way						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	howl	past	way not said here		dark		till the turtle; dawn		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dark=Recipient
8	is a	past	the turtle	way's head keeper					tree rules
9	hear	past	way not said here	way					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
10	come	past	way not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	see	to-infinitive	way not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
12	is a	past		the matter					tree rules

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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