The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 23
Then Virgilius drew the bolt, and, picking the books up under his arm, he left the cave.
Who acts: Virgilius · What happens: draw, pick up, leave · To what, where: bolt, books, arm, cave
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bolt | det |
| 5 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 picking | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 picking | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 picking | punct |
| 9 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 drew | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 books | det |
| 11 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 picking | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 picking | compound:prt |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 arm | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arm | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 picking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cave | det |
| 20 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Virgilius | the bolt | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme | |||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | Virgilius not said here | the books | Virgilius's arm | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | |||
| 3 | leave | past | Virgilius | the cave | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=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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