The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 114

So, leaving them to plunge and leap like frogs and fishes, Virgilius took the princess in his arms, and carried her over the airy bridge back to Rome.

Who acts: Virgilius · What happens: leave, plunge, leap, take, carry · To what, where: lords, princess, arms, Rome, airy bridge

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	15 took	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 took	advcl
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leaving	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 plunge	mark
6	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leaving	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leap	cc
8	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 plunge	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 frogs	case
10	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leap	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fishes	cc
12	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 frogs	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 leaving	punct
14	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 arms	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 took	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 carried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carried	cc
23	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	obj
25	over	over	ADP	_	28 bridge	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bridge	det
27	airy	airy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bridge	amod
28	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carried	obl
29	back	back	ADV	_	23 carried	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Rome	case
31	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 carried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	Virgilius not said here	lords = lord				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	plunge	to-infinitive	Virgilius not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	leap	infinitive	Virgilius not said here				like frogs and fishes	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past	Virgilius	the princess		Virgilius's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent princess=Value in arm=Location
5	carry	past	Virgilius not said here	princess	Rome	the airy bridge		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to rome=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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