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title: Children must often have wondered why jelly-fishes have no shells, l… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Children must often have wondered why jelly-fishes have no shells, like so many of the creatures that are washed up every day on the beach. Who acts: jelly fishes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 1

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Children must often have wondered why jelly-fishes have no shells, like so many of the creatures that are washed up every day on the beach.

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**Who acts:** jelly fishes · **What happens:** wonder, have, wash up · **To what, where:** Children, shells, many creatures, beach

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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 (jelly fishes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:32:1
# text = Children must often have wondered why jelly-fishes have no shells, like so many of the creatures that are washed up every day on the beach.
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | must · perfect · passive |  | Children |  |  |  | like the many creatures; often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | jelly fishes | no shells |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient |
| 3 | **wash up** | present · passive |  | the many creatures |  | the beach | day |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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**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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