The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 6
Now apes do not dwell under the sea, so a council of the wisest heads in the nation was called to consider the question how a liver could be obtained.
Who acts: apes · What happens: not dwell, call, consider, obtain · To what, where: sea, council, question, liver · 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 (apes), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dwell | advmod |
| 2 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dwell | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dwell | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dwell | advmod |
| 5 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 called | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 council | det |
| 12 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heads | det |
| 15 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 heads | amod |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 council | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 nation | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nation | det |
| 19 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heads | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dwell | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 consider | mark |
| 23 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 called | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 question | det |
| 25 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 consider | obj |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 obtained | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 liver | det |
| 28 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 obtained | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 obtained | aux:pass |
| 31 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 consider | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dwell | present · do-support | apes | the sea | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Location | |||
| 2 | call | past · passive | a council of the wisest heads in the nation | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | consider | to-infinitive | the question | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent question=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | obtain | could · passive | a liver | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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