The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 119
(Adapted from ‘Virgilius the Sorcerer.’)
What happens: adapt · To what, where: Virgilius
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: 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 | _ | 2 Adapted | punct |
| 2 | Adapted | adapt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Virgilius | case |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Virgilius | punct |
| 5 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Adapted | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sorcerer | det |
| 7 | Sorcerer | Sorcerer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Virgilius | appos |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Adapted | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Adapted | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Adapted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adapt | participle | Virgilius | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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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