The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 101

The princess spent some days in the palace of Virgilius, looking at wonders of which she had never dreamed, though she declined to accept the presents he longed to heap on her.

Who acts: princess, Virgilius · What happens: spend, look, not dream, decline, not accept, long · To what, where: palace, presents

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 (princess, Virgilius), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 days	det
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spent	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Virgilius	case
10	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 palace	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spent	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 wonders	case
14	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looking	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 dreamed	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dreamed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dreamed	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 dreamed	advmod
20	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 wonders	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 declined	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 declined	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 declined	nsubj
24	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 accept	mark
26	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 declined	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 presents	det
28	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 accept	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 longed	nsubj
30	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 presents	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 heap	mark
32	heap	heap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 longed	xcomp
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heap	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	the princess		the palace of Virgilius	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	the princess not said here				at wonders	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wonder=Theme
3	not dream	past · perfect	princess				of wonders	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	decline	past	princess					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not accept	to-infinitive	princess not said here	the presents				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme
6	long	past	Virgilius	the presents not said here				tree rules
7	heap not said to happen	to-infinitive	Virgilius not said here				on princess	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on she=Destination

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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