The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 16

Now Virgilius loved wisdom, and was tempted by these promises, but again his prudence came to his aid, and he demanded that the books should be handed over to him first, and that he should be told how to use them.

Who acts: Virgilius, promises, prudence · What happens: love, tempt, come, demand, hand over, tell · To what, where: wisdom, aid, books, Virgilius, prudence · 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 (Virgilius, promises, prudence), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 loved	advmod
2	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 loved	nsubj
3	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tempted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tempted	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tempted	aux:pass
8	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 loved	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 promises	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 promises	det
11	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tempted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
14	again	again	ADV	_	16 prudence	advmod
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 prudence	nmod:poss
16	prudence	prudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 aid	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 aid	nmod:poss
20	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 demanded	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 demanded	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 demanded	nsubj
24	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 handed	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 books	det
27	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 handed	nsubj:pass
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 handed	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 handed	aux:pass
30	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 demanded	advcl
31	over	over	ADP	_	30 handed	compound:prt
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 handed	obl
34	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 handed	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 told	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 told	cc
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 told	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 told	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 told	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 told	aux:pass
41	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 loved	conj
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	44 use	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 use	mark
44	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 told	xcomp
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 use	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	Virgilius	wisdom			now		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus
2	tempt	past · passive	this promises						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	past	Virgilius's prudence			Virgilius's aid			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location
4	demand speech: request	past	prudence						vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	hand over	should · passive		the books	Virgilius			first property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination
6	tell speech: assert	should · passive		prudence					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	prudence not said here	books = book					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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