The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 33

And the rogue made such a fuss and moaning that he would have melted a heart of stone, and nothing would content him but that somebody should carry him back to land and let him fetch his liver again.

Who acts: rogue, fuss, nothing, somebody · What happens: make, moan, melt, content, carry back, land · To what, where: fuss, heart, rogue, liver

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 (rogue, fuss, nothing, somebody), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 made	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rogue	det
3	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 fuss	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fuss	det
7	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 moaning	cc
9	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 fuss	acl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 melted	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 melted	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 melted	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 melted	aux
14	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 moaning	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 heart	det
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 melted	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 stone	case
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heart	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 content	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 content	cc
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 content	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 content	aux
23	content	content	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 content	obj
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 carry	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 carry	mark
27	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 carry	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 carry	aux
29	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 content	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 carry	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	29 carry	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 land	mark
33	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 carry	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 let	cc
35	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 land	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 let	obj
37	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 let	xcomp
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 liver	nmod:poss
39	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fetch	obj
40	again	again	ADV	_	37 fetch	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	past	the rogue	such fuss		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product
2	moan	gerund	such fuss not said here			vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	melt	would · perfect	rogue	a heart of stone		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient heart=Result
4	content	would	nothing	rogue		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	carry back	should	somebody	rogue		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	land	to-infinitive	somebody not said here			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	let	infinitive	somebody not said here	rogue		tree rules
8	fetch	infinitive	rogue not said here	way's liver	again	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=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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