The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 42
But, as sometimes happens, the turtle was allowed to go scot-free, and had his shell given back to him, and all the punishment fell on the poor jelly-fish, who was condemned by the queen to go shieldless for ever after.
Who acts: turtle, punishment, queen · What happens: happen, allow, go, give back, fall, condemn · To what, where: turtle, poor jelly fish
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, punishment, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 given | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happens | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 happens | mark |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 happens | advmod |
| 5 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 allowed | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 turtle | det |
| 8 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 allowed | aux:pass |
| 10 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 happens | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 allowed | xcomp |
| 13 | scot | scot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 free | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 scot | punct |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 go | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | aux |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shell | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 given | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 back | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fell | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 punishment | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 punishment | det |
| 29 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | nsubj |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 fish | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fish | det |
| 33 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fish | amod |
| 34 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fish | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 jelly | punct |
| 36 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 condemned | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 condemned | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 condemned | aux:pass |
| 40 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 fish | acl:relcl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 queen | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 queen | det |
| 43 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 condemned | obl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 go | mark |
| 45 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 condemned | advcl |
| 46 | shieldless | shieldless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 go | xcomp |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 ever | case |
| 48 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 49 after | advmod |
| 49 | after | after | ADV | _ | 45 go | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | sometimes property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | allow | past · passive | the turtle | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the turtle not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give back | past · perfect | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | fall | past | all punishment | on the poor jelly fish | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fish=Location | ||||
| 6 | condemn | past · passive | the queen | the poor jelly fish | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | after, shieldless property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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