The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 108

Directly the sultan was up he summoned his lords and nobles into his great hall, and commanded that the cords which bound Virgilius should be taken off, and the prisoner brought before him.

Who acts: sultan, cords, prisoner · What happens: summon, command, bound, take off, bring · To what, where: sultan, great hall, Virgilius, cords · 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 (sultan, cords, prisoner), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	7 summoned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sultan	det
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 summoned	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 up	cop
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 sultan	compound
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 summoned	nsubj
7	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lords	nmod:poss
9	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 summoned	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nobles	cc
11	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lords	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 hall	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hall	nmod:poss
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hall	amod
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 summoned	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 commanded	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 commanded	cc
18	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 summoned	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 taken	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cords	det
21	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 taken	nsubj:pass
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 bound	nsubj
23	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cords	acl:relcl
24	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 bound	obj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 taken	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 taken	aux:pass
27	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 commanded	ccomp
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 taken	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 brought	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 brought	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 prisoner	det
32	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brought	nsubj
33	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 summoned	conj
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 brought	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	past	sultan	the sultan	sultan's great hall		directly property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient
2	command	past	sultan not said here					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bound	present	the cords	Virgilius				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location virgilius=Theme
4	take off	should · passive		the cords				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	bring	past	the prisoner			before sultan		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=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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