The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 9

However he swam to a part of the coast that was covered with tall trees, where he thought the apes were likely to be; for he was old, and had seen many things.

Who acts: council, apes · What happens: swim, cover, think, be, see · To what, where: part, coast, many things · 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 (council, 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	However	however	ADV	_	3 swam	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swam	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 coast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coast	det
9	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 covered	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 covered	aux:pass
12	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 coast	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 trees	case
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trees	amod
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 covered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 thought	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trees	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 apes	det
21	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 likely	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 likely	cop
23	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thought	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 be	mark
25	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 likely	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 old	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 old	case
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 old	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 old	cop
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swam	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seen	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 seen	cc
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 swam	conj
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 things	amod
36	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 seen	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	council		a part of the coast	however property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to part=Destination
2	cover	past · passive		the coast		with tall trees	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tree=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	council				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the apes			likely property	tree rules
5	be	to-infinitive	the apes not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	council			old property	tree rules
7	see	past · perfect	council not said here	many things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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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