The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 12
‘Then,’ said the voice, ‘draw back that bolt, and set me free.’
What happens: say, draw back, set · To what, where: voice, bolt, me · 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: 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 draw | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 draw | punct |
| 10 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 draw | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 bolt | det |
| 13 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 draw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 draw | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 set | obj |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 set | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the voice | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | ||||
| 2 | draw back | infinitive | that bolt | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | me | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
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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