The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 17
The evil spirit, unable to help itself, did as Virgilius bade him, and then the bolt was drawn back.
Who acts: evil spirit, Virgilius · What happens: help, do, bade, draw back · To what, where: wisdom, spirit, bolt
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 (evil spirit, Virgilius), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 2 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unable | punct |
| 5 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unable | xcomp |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spirit | punct |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 bade | mark |
| 12 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bade | nsubj |
| 13 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 did | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bade | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drawn | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drawn | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 drawn | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bolt | det |
| 19 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 drawn | aux:pass |
| 21 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 did | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 drawn | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | to-infinitive | the evil spirit not said here | wisdom | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the evil spirit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bade | past | Virgilius | spirit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | draw back | past · passive | the bolt | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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