The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 34

The queen’s councillors were not the wisest of people, and they decided between them that the turtle should take the monkey back to his native land and allow him to get his liver off the bush, but desired the turtle not to lose sight of his charge for a single moment.

Who acts: councillors, turtle · What happens: not be, decide, take back, allow, get, desire · To what, where: monkey, native land, turtle, liver, sight, charge · 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 (councillors, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 councillors	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 queen	case
4	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wisest	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wisest	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 wisest	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wisest	det
8	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wisest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 decided	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 decided	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 decided	nsubj
14	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wisest	parataxis
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 decided	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 take	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 turtle	det
19	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 decided	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 monkey	det
23	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	21 take	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 land	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 land	nmod:poss
27	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 land	amod
28	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 allow	cc
30	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 take	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 allow	iobj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 get	mark
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 allow	xcomp
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 liver	nmod:poss
35	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 get	obj
36	off	off	ADP	_	38 bush	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bush	det
38	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 get	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 desired	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 desired	cc
41	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 decided	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 turtle	det
43	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 desired	obj
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 lose	advmod
45	to	to	PART	_	46 lose	mark
46	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 desired	xcomp
47	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lose	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 charge	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 charge	nmod:poss
50	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sight	nmod
51	for	for	ADP	_	54 moment	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 moment	det
53	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 moment	amod
54	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lose	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wisest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the queen's councillors					of people; wise property	tree rules
2	decide	past	councillors = councillor					between people	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take back	should	the turtle	the monkey		turtle's native land			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme to land=Destination
4	allow	infinitive	the turtle not said here		turtle				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the turtle not said here	turtle's liver				off the bush	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer liver=Stimulus
6	desire	past	councillors = councillor not said here	the turtle					tree rules
7	not lose not said to happen	to-infinitive	councillors = councillor not said here	sight of turtle's charge			moment		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
8	sight			turtle's charge					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	charge		turtle						nom charge «act transitive»: poss=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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