The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 14
‘I am an evil spirit,’ said the voice, ‘shut up here till Doomsday, unless a man sets me free.
Who acts: I, evil spirit, man · What happens: be, say, shut up, set · To what, where: evil spirit, voice, 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: who acts (I, evil spirit, man), 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 | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 spirit | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spirit | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spirit | det |
| 5 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spirit | amod |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 14 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 shut | compound:prt |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 shut | advmod |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 Doomsday | case |
| 18 | Doomsday | Doomsday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 shut | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sets | punct |
| 20 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 23 sets | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sets | nsubj |
| 23 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shut | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 sets | obj |
| 25 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sets | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a evil spirit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a evil spirit | the voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shut up | participle | here | till Doomsday | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | set a condition, not said to happen | present | a man | 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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