The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 110

Virgilius replied that if he had taken her away he had also brought her back, when he might have kept her, and that if they would set him free to return to his own land he would come hither no more.

Who acts: Virgilius, cords · What happens: reply, take away, bring back, keep, set, return · To what, where: princess, Virgilius, more

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, cords), 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	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 taken	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 taken	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taken	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 replied	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taken	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	aux
12	also	also	ADV	_	13 brought	advmod
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 taken	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	13 brought	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kept	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 kept	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kept	nsubj:pass
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 kept	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 kept	aux
21	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 brought	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kept	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 set	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 set	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 set	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 set	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 set	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 set	aux
29	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 replied	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 set	obj
31	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 set	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 return	mark
33	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 free	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 land	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 land	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 land	amod
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 return	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 come	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 come	aux
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 land	acl:relcl
41	hither	hither	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
42	no	no	ADV	_	43 more	advmod
43	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 come	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Virgilius				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take away a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Virgilius	princess		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	bring back	past · perfect	Virgilius		princess		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
4	keep	might · perfect · passive		Virgilius			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute
5	set a condition, not said to happen	would	cords = cord	Virgilius		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
6	return	to-infinitive	cords = cord not said here			to Virgilius's own land result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result
7	come	would	Virgilius	more		hither property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme

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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