The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 10
‘Virgilius!’ answered the voice, ‘do you mark upon the ground where you are standing a slide or bolt?’
Who acts: Virgilius, you · What happens: answer, mark, stand · To what, where: voice, ground, slide
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: who acts (Virgilius, you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Virgilius | punct |
| 2 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Virgilius | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Virgilius | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mark | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 mark | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mark | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 mark | nsubj |
| 12 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mark | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 standing | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 standing | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 standing | aux |
| 19 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ground | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 slide | det |
| 21 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 standing | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 bolt | cc |
| 23 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slide | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 mark | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 mark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Virgilius | the voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mark | present · do-support | you | the ground | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination | ||||
| 3 | stand | present · progressive | you | a slide or bolt | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slide=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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