The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 35

The monkey knew this, but trusted to his power of beguiling the turtle when the time came, and mounted on his back with feelings of joy, which he was, however, careful to conceal.

Who acts: monkey, power, time · What happens: know, trust, beguile, come, mount, conceal · To what, where: this, power, turtle, back

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 (monkey, power, time), 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 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knew	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trusted	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 trusted	cc
7	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knew	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 power	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 power	nmod:poss
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trusted	obl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 beguiling	mark
12	beguiling	beguile	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 power	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 turtle	det
14	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beguiling	obj
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beguiling	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mounted	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mounted	cc
21	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knew	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 back	nmod:poss
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mounted	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 feelings	case
26	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 mounted	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 joy	case
28	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feelings	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 was	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 was	nsubj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 was	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 feelings	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 careful	punct
34	however	however	ADV	_	36 careful	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 careful	punct
36	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mounted	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 conceal	mark
38	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 careful	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the monkey	this				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	trust	participle	the monkey not said here		turtle's power			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to power=Recipient
3	beguile	gerund	turtle's power not said here	the turtle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus turtle=Experiencer
4	come	past	the time					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mount	participle				turtle's back	with feelings of joy	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with feeling=Instrument
6	conceal	to-infinitive						vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: 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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