The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 118
And the city Virgilius filled full of wonders, such as never were seen before, and he called its name Naples.
Who acts: city, bottle · What happens: fill, not see, call, name · To what, where: wonders, name · 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 (city, bottle), 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 | _ | 5 filled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 city | appos |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 filled | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wonders | case |
| 8 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 seen | mark |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wonders | acl |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 seen | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 called | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 called | nsubj |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | conj |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | obj |
| 22 | Naples | Naples | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 name | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the city | full property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | wonders not said here | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | call | past | city | bottle's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | name | bottle | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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