The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 38

At a word from him they rushed in a body to the unfortunate turtle, threw him on his back, and tore off the shield that covered his body.

Who acts: monkeys, shield · What happens: rush, throw, cover · To what, where: word, turtle, back, body

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, shield), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rushed	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 word	nmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rushed	nsubj
7	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 body	det
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rushed	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 turtle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 turtle	det
13	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 turtle	amod
14	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rushed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rushed	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threw	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 back	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 back	nmod:poss
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tore	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tore	cc
23	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl
24	off	off	ADP	_	26 shield	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shield	det
26	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tore	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 covered	nsubj
28	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shield	acl:relcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 body	nmod:poss
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 covered	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past	monkeys = monkey		a word from turtle	in a body; to the unfortunate turtle result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to turtle=Result
2	throw	past	monkeys = monkey not said here	turtle	turtle's back	tore off the shield obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on back=Destination
3	cover	past	the shield	turtle's body			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Destination

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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