The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 1
Long, long ago there was born to a Roman knight and his wife Maja a little boy called Virgilius.
What happens: bear, call · To what, where: little boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 born | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 was | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 knight | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knight | det |
| 10 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knight | amod |
| 11 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wife | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knight | conj |
| 15 | Maja | Maja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | appos |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knight | conj |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 boy | acl |
| 20 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | to a Roman knight and his wife and a little boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | a little boy not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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