The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 4

The swiftest messengers were sent hurrying to fetch the best doctors from every country under the sea, but it was all of no use; the queen grew rapidly worse instead of better.

Who acts: swiftest messengers, queen · What happens: send, hurry, fetch, grow · To what, where: swiftest messengers, best doctors, country

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 (swiftest messengers, queen), 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	3 messengers	det
2	swiftest	swift	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 messengers	amod
3	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sent	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fetch	mark
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hurrying	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doctors	det
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 doctors	amod
11	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fetch	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 country	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obl
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 all	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 all	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 all	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 all	cop
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sent	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 use	case
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 use	det
25	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 all	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 grew	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 queen	det
28	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grew	nsubj
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	conj
30	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	31 worse	advmod
31	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 grew	xcomp
32	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	34 better	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 instead	fixed
34	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 grew	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		the swiftest messengers			tree rules
2	hurry	gerund	the swiftest messengers not said here				tree rules
3	fetch	to-infinitive	the swiftest messengers not said here	the best doctors	every country	under the sea	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent doctor=Theme from country=Source
4	grow	past	the queen			instead better; bad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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