The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 25

But at the end of that time a messenger from his mother arrived in Toledo, begging him to come at once to Rome, as she had been ill, and could look after their affairs no longer.

Who acts: messenger, Rome · What happens: arrive, beg, come, be, look · To what, where: end, messenger, Rome

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 (messenger, Rome), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 arrived	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 messenger	det
9	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	nsubj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 mother	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 messenger	nmod
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Toledo	case
15	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begging	punct
17	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 arrived	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begging	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begging	xcomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 come	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Rome	case
24	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ill	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 ill	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ill	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ill	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 ill	cop
30	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 come	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 look	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 look	cc
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 look	aux
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 arrived	conj
35	after	after	ADP	_	37 affairs	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 affairs	nmod:poss
37	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 look	obl
38	no	no	ADV	_	39 longer	advmod
39	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 look	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	a messenger from messenger's mother			at the end of that time	in Toledo	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	gerund	a messenger from messenger's mother not said here	messenger				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	a messenger from messenger's mother not said here		Rome			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rome=Initial_Location
4	is	past · perfect	Rome				ill property	tree rules
5	look	could	a messenger from messenger's mother not said here			after books's affairs	long property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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