The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 116
And in the city was a square tower, and on the roof of the tower was a rod of iron, and across the rod he laid a bottle, and on the bottle he placed an egg, and from the egg there hung chained an apple, which hangs there to this day.
Who acts: Virgilius, apple · What happens: be, lay, place, chain, hang · To what, where: square tower, city, rod, roof, bottle, egg
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, apple), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tower | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 city | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tower | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tower | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tower | det |
| 7 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tower | amod |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rod | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rod | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 roof | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rod | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tower | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tower | det |
| 16 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roof | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rod | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rod | det |
| 19 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tower | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 iron | case |
| 21 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rod | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 laid | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 laid | cc |
| 24 | across | across | ADP | _ | 26 rod | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rod | det |
| 26 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laid | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 laid | nsubj |
| 28 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tower | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bottle | det |
| 30 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laid | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 placed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 placed | cc |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 bottle | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bottle | det |
| 35 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 placed | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 placed | nsubj |
| 37 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 laid | conj |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 egg | det |
| 39 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 placed | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 chained | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 chained | cc |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 egg | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 egg | det |
| 44 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 chained | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 egg | advmod |
| 46 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 chained | aux:pass |
| 47 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 placed | advcl |
| 48 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 apple | det |
| 49 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 chained | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 hangs | punct |
| 51 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 hangs | nsubj |
| 52 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 apple | acl:relcl |
| 53 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 hangs | advmod |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 day | case |
| 55 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 56 day | det |
| 56 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 hangs | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a square tower and a rod | the city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a rod | the roof of the tower | of iron | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lay | past | Virgilius | a bottle | the rod | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Result | |||
| 4 | place | past | Virgilius | a egg | the bottle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on bottle=Destination | |||
| 5 | chain | past · passive | the egg | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient apple=Result | |||||
| 6 | hang | present | a apple | there | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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