The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 13
‘But who are you?’ asked Virgilius, who never did anything in a hurry.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, ask, not do · To what, where: Virgilius, anything, hurry
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 (you), 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 | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 who | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 who | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 who | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 who | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 did | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 did | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | conj |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 did | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hurry | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hurry | det |
| 17 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Virgilius | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent virgilius=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | not do | past | anything | a hurry | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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