The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 24

For the next few weeks Virgilius hardly ate or slept, so busy was he in learning the magic the books contained.

Who acts: Virgilius, books · What happens: eat, sleep, learn, contain · To what, where: magic · 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, books), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weeks	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weeks	amod
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weeks	amod
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	obl
6	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ate	nsubj
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 ate	advmod
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 slept	cc
10	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ate	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 busy	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 busy	advmod
13	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 learning	advcl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 learning	aux
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 learning	nsubj
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	17 learning	mark
17	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ate	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 magic	det
19	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 learning	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 books	det
21	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 contained	nsubj
22	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 learning	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Virgilius		week	hardly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	past	Virgilius not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	learn	past · progressive	Virgilius	the magic			tree rules
4	contain	past	the books				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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