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title: Now apes do not dwell under the sea, so a council of the wisest head… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 6

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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.

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**Who acts:** apes · **What happens:** not dwell, call, consider, obtain · **To what, where:** sea, council, question, liver · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (apes), 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:pg641:32:6
# text = 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.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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