The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 104

She told him all that had happened to her, and he pretended to be very much interested, and begged that the next time Virgilius came he might be introduced to him.

Who acts: princess, that, Virgilius, next time · What happens: tell, happen, pretend, be, beg, come · To what, where: Virgilius, princess, father · 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: who acts (princess, that, Virgilius, next time), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 happened	det:predet
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 happened	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 happened	aux
7	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 happened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pretended	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pretended	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pretended	nsubj
13	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	18 interested	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 interested	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 interested	advmod
18	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pretended	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 begged	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 begged	cc
21	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pretended	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
24	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 time	amod
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
26	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 time	appos
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 begged	advcl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 introduced	nsubj:pass
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 introduced	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 introduced	aux:pass
31	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 came	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 introduced	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	princess		Virgilius		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect	that		princess		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pretend	past	Virgilius				tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	Virgilius not said here			interested property	tree rules
5	beg speech: request	past	Virgilius not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	the next time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	introduce	might · passive		Virgilius	father		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to he=Co-Patient

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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