The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 7

At length it was decided that the turtle, whose prudence was well known, should swim to land and contrive to catch a living ape and bring him safely to the ocean kingdom.

Who acts: length · What happens: decide, know, swim, land, contrive, catch · To what, where: liver, turtle, length, living ape, ape, ocean kingdom

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 (length), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swim	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 decided	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 decided	aux:pass
5	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 length	acl:relcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 known	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 turtle	det
8	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 known	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 prudence	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 prudence	nmod:poss
11	prudence	prudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turtle	appos
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 known	aux:pass
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 known	advmod
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 decided	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 swim	aux
17	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 land	mark
19	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 swim	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 contrive	cc
21	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 land	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 catch	mark
23	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 contrive	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 ape	det
25	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ape	amod
26	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 catch	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bring	cc
28	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 catch	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bring	obj
30	safely	safely	ADV	_	28 bring	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 kingdom	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kingdom	det
33	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kingdom	compound
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bring	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 swim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decide	past · passive	length not said here	liver			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
2	know	past · passive		the turtle		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	swim	should			length		tree rules
4	land	to-infinitive					vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	contrive	infinitive					tree rules
6	catch	to-infinitive		a living ape			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ape=Theme
7	bring	infinitive		ape	the ocean kingdom	safely property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to kingdom=Destination

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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