The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 103

Then Virgilius conducted her himself over the airy bridge, and laid her gently down on her own bed, where she was found next morning by her father.

Who acts: Virgilius, father · What happens: conduct, lay down, find · To what, where: princess, airy bridge, own bed

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, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 conducted	advmod
2	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 conducted	nsubj
3	conducted	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 conducted	obj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 conducted	obl
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
8	airy	airy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bridge	amod
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conducted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laid	cc
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 conducted	parataxis
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laid	obj
14	gently	gently	ADV	_	12 laid	advmod
15	down	down	ADV	_	12 laid	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 bed	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bed	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bed	amod
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 found	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	aux:pass
24	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 laid	conj
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 morning	amod
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl:unmarked
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 father	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 conducted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	past	Virgilius	princess	the airy bridge	then	Virgilius obl	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme over bridge=Destination
2	lay down	past		princess	princess's own bed		down, gently property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on bed=Destination
3	find	past · passive	princess's father	princess		morning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic

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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