The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 40
Faint and exhausted he entered the queen’s palace for the cold of the water struck upon his naked body, and made him feel ill and miserable.
Who acts: turtle, palace · What happens: exhaust, enter, strike, make, feel · To what, where: naked body, 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 (turtle, palace), 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 | Faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 exhausted | cc |
| 3 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Faint | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exhausted | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 struck | nsubj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 cold | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cold | det |
| 12 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cold | nmod |
| 16 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entered | ccomp |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 body | amod |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 struck | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 struck | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 made | xcomp |
| 26 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feel | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 miserable | cc |
| 28 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ill | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Faint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | enter | past | turtle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | strike | past | the queen's palace for the cold of the water | turtle's naked body | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon body=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the queen's palace for the cold of the water not said here | turtle | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | turtle not said here | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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