The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 41

But wretched though he was, he had to appear before the queen’s advisers and tell them all that had befallen him, and how he had suffered the monkey to escape.

Who acts: turtle, that · What happens: be, have, appear, tell, befall, suffer · To what, where: advisers, turtle, monkey · 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, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 wretched	cc
2	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 was	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 was	nsubj
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wretched	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wretched	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 appear	mark
10	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	before	before	ADP	_	15 advisers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 queen	det
13	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 advisers	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 queen	case
15	advisers	adviser	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 appear	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tell	cc
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 appear	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 befallen	det:predet
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 befallen	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 befallen	aux
22	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 tell	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 befallen	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 suffered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 suffered	cc
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 suffered	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 suffered	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 suffered	aux
29	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 had	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 monkey	det
31	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 suffered	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 escape	mark
33	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 monkey	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	turtle				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	turtle				tree rules
3	appear	to-infinitive	turtle not said here			the queen's advisers	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before adviser=Location
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	turtle not said here		advisers = adviser		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	befall	past · perfect	that	turtle			tree rules
6	suffer	past · perfect	turtle	the monkey			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus
7	escape	to-infinitive	turtle not said here	the monkey not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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