The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 36

They set out, and in a few hours were wandering about the forest where the ape had first been caught, and when the monkey saw his family peering out from the tree tops, he swung himself up by the nearest branch, just managing to save his hind leg from being seized by the turtle.

Who acts: monkeys, monkey, family, ape, turtle · What happens: set out, wonder, catch, see, peer out, swing up · To what, where: ape, family, hind leg

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 (monkeys, monkey, family, ape), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wandering	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wandering	cc
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hours	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hours	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hours	amod
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wandering	obl
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wandering	aux
11	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 set	advcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wandering	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 caught	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ape	det
17	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 caught	aux
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 caught	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 caught	aux:pass
21	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 forest	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 saw	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 monkey	det
26	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 family	nmod:poss
29	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
30	peering	peer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 saw	xcomp
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 peering	compound:prt
32	from	from	ADP	_	35 tops	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tops	det
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tops	compound
35	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 peering	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 swung	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 swung	nsubj
38	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	conj
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 swung	obj
40	up	up	ADP	_	38 swung	compound:prt
41	by	by	ADP	_	44 branch	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 branch	det
43	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 branch	amod
44	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 swung	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 managing	punct
46	just	just	ADV	_	47 managing	advmod
47	managing	manage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 swung	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 save	mark
49	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 managing	xcomp
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 leg	nmod:poss
51	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 leg	amod
52	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 save	obj
53	from	from	SCONJ	_	55 seized	mark
54	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 seized	aux:pass
55	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 save	advcl
56	by	by	ADP	_	58 turtle	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 turtle	det
58	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 seized	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	monkeys = monkey				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	monkeys = monkey not said here		hour	about the forest	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about forest=Stimulus
3	catch	past · perfect · passive		the ape		first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	see	past	the monkey	ape's family			tree rules
5	peer out	gerund	ape's family not said here			from the tree tops	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from top=Theme
6	swing up	past	ape	ape		by the nearest branch	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by branch=Location
7	manage	gerund	ape not said here				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	save	to-infinitive	ape not said here	ape's hind leg			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
9	seize	gerund · passive	the turtle				vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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