The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 39

Then with mocking words they hunted him to the shore, and into the sea, which he was only too thankful to reach alive.

Who acts: words, sea · What happens: mock, hunt, be, reach · To what, where: turtle

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 (words, sea), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 hunted	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 words	case
3	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hunted	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hunted	nsubj
6	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hunted	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 shore	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sea	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sea	cc
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunted	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thankful	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 thankful	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thankful	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thankful	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 thankful	advmod
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 thankful	advmod
22	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sea	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 reach	mark
24	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thankful	advcl
25	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 reach	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mock	gerund					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	past	words = word	turtle	then	with mocking words; to the shore	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	the sea			thankful property	tree rules
4	reach	to-infinitive	the sea not said here			alive property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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