The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 37

He told them all the dreadful things that had happened to him, and gave a war cry which brought the rest of the tribe from the neighbouring hills.

Who acts: turtle, dreadful things, war cry · What happens: tell, happen, give, bring · To what, where: monkeys, turtle, war cry, rest, neighbouring hills · 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 (turtle, dreadful things, war cry), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 things	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 things	det
6	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	ccomp
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 happened	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 happened	aux
10	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 things	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 happened	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cry	det
17	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cry	compound
18	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 brought	nsubj
20	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cry	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rest	det
22	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 tribe	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tribe	det
25	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rest	nmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 hills	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hills	det
28	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hills	compound
29	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 brought	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	turtle		monkeys = monkey		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	happen	past · perfect	all dreadful things		turtle		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	turtle not said here	a war cry			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
4	bring	past	a war cry	the rest of the tribe		the neighbouring hills	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rest=Theme from hill=Initial_Location

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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