The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 115
Now Virgilius did not think that either his palace, or even Rome itself, was good enough to contain such a pearl as the princess, so he built her a city whose foundations stood upon eggs, buried far away down in the depths of the sea.
Who acts: Virgilius, Rome, foundations · What happens: not think, be, contain, build, stand, bury down · To what, where: pearl, city, Rome, eggs, depths
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, Rome, foundations), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Virgilius | advmod |
| 2 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 palace | mark |
| 7 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 9 palace | cc:preconj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 good | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 Rome | advmod |
| 13 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 good | nsubj |
| 14 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 13 Rome | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rome | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 good | cop |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | parataxis |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 good | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 contain | mark |
| 20 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 good | advcl |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 pearl | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pearl | det |
| 23 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 contain | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 princess | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 contain | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 built | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 built | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 built | nsubj |
| 30 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | parataxis |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 built | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 city | det |
| 33 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 built | obj |
| 34 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 35 foundations | nmod:poss |
| 35 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 stood | nsubj |
| 36 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 city | acl:relcl |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 eggs | case |
| 38 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 stood | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 buried | punct |
| 40 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 eggs | acl |
| 41 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 away | advmod |
| 42 | away | away | ADV | _ | 40 buried | advmod |
| 43 | down | down | ADV | _ | 40 buried | advmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 depths | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 depths | det |
| 46 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 buried | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 sea | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 sea | det |
| 49 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 depths | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | Virgilius | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Rome palace | enough, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | contain | to-infinitive | Rome palace not said here | such pearl | as the princess | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pearl=Theme | |||
| 4 | build | past | Virgilius | a city | Rome | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary city=Product | |||
| 5 | stand | past | foundations | eggs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon egg=Location | ||||
| 6 | bury down | participle | eggs not said here | the depths of the sea | away, down property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in depth=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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