The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 113

‘You are out in your reckoning, Sir Sultan!’ said Virgilius, whose patience was at an end, and he cast a spell over the sultan and his lords, so that they believed that the great river of Babylon was flowing through the hall, and that they must swim for their lives.

Who acts: You, reckoning, patience, Virgilius, lords, great river · What happens: be, say, cast, believe, flow, swim · To what, where: reckoning, end, spell, sultan, hall · 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 (You, reckoning, patience, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 reckoning	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 reckoning	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reckoning	cop
4	out	out	ADV	_	7 reckoning	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 reckoning	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 reckoning	nmod:poss
7	reckoning	reckoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Sultan	punct
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Sultan	nmod:desc
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reckoning	appos
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Sultan	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 reckoning	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 end	punct
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 patience	nmod:poss
17	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 end	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 end	cop
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 end	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 end	det
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Virgilius	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cast	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cast	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cast	nsubj
25	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 spell	det
27	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cast	obj
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 sultan	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sultan	det
30	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cast	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lords	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 lords	nmod:poss
33	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sultan	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 believed	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 believed	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 believed	nsubj
38	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cast	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 flowing	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 river	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 river	amod
42	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 flowing	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Babylon	case
44	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 river	nmod
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 flowing	aux
46	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 believed	advcl
47	through	through	ADP	_	49 hall	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 hall	det
49	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 flowing	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 swim	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 swim	cc
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 swim	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 swim	nsubj
54	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 swim	aux
55	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	parataxis
56	for	for	ADP	_	58 lives	case
57	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 lives	nmod:poss
58	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 swim	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You		your reckoning		out property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	your reckoning					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	a end's patience			at a end		tree rules
4	cast	past	Virgilius	a spell	the sultan and sultan's lords			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over sultan=Destination
5	believe	past	lords = lord					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	flow	past · progressive	the great river of Babylon		the hall			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Location
7	swim	must	lords = lord				for lords's lives	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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