The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 106
When they were all seated at the feast the princess rose and presented the cup to Virgilius, who directly he had drunk fell into a deep sleep.
Who acts: princess, Virgilius · What happens: seat, rise, present, drink, fall · To what, where: hand, feast, cup, Virgilius, deep sleep
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 seated | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 seated | advmod |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rose | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 feast | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | nsubj |
| 11 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 presented | cc |
| 13 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rose | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cup | det |
| 15 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Virgilius | case |
| 17 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drunk | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 23 drunk | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 drunk | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 drunk | aux |
| 23 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Virgilius | acl:relcl |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 presented | parataxis |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 sleep | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sleep | det |
| 27 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sleep | amod |
| 28 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | hand | all property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the princess | the feast | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at feast=Location | ||||
| 3 | present | past | the princess not said here | the cup | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink | past · perfect · passive | Virgilius | directly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | Virgilius | into a deep sleep result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |
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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