--- title: Shouts of joy broke forth from the attendants when he was seen appro… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Shouts of joy broke forth from the attendants when he was seen approaching, and some of them ran to tell the queen that the monkey was there, and that before long she would be as well as ever she was. Who acts: Shouts, turtle, some, monkey. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shouts, turtle, some, monkey), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:32:21 # text = Shouts of joy broke forth from the attendants when he was seen approaching, and some of them ran to tell the queen that the monkey was there, and that before long she would be as well as ever she was. 1 Shouts shout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 forth forth ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 13 approaching approach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 32 before before ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 37 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 42 advmod _ _ 38 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 fixed _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 40 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 37 fixed _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | past | Shouts of joy | | | | | from the attendants; forth *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from attendant=Co-Patient | | 2 | **see** | past · passive | | turtle | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **approach** | gerund | turtle *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run** | past | some | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | | the queen | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | past | the monkey | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | as *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | past | queen | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **shout** | | | joy | | | | | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/22/) - ↑ back to [The Monkey and the Jelly-fish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/32/)