The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 26

Though sorry to leave Toledo, where he was much thought of as showing promise of great learning, Virgilius would willingly have set out at once, but there were many things he had first to see to.

Who acts: great learning, many things, Virgilius · What happens: leave, think, show, set out, be, have · To what, where: Toledo, promise, Virgilius, many things, great learning

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 (great learning, many things, 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	2 sorry	mark
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 leave	mark
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sorry	xcomp
5	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 thought	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	aux:pass
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 thought	advmod
11	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Toledo	acl:relcl
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 showing	mark
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 showing	mark
14	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 thought	advcl
15	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 showing	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 learning	case
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 learning	amod
18	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 promise	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Virgilius	punct
20	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 set	nsubj:pass
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 set	aux
22	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	24 set	advmod
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 set	aux
24	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 learning	acl:relcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 set	compound:prt
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 set	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 were	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 were	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 were	expl
31	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sorry	conj
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 things	amod
33	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 were	nsubj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 things	acl:relcl
36	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 had	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 see	mark
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 had	xcomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	38 see	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive		Toledo			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toledo=Theme
2	think speech: other	past · passive		Toledo			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	show	gerund		promise of great learning			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent promise=Recipient
4	set out	would · perfect · passive	great learning not said here	Virgilius		willingly property	tree rules
5	be	past	many things		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	past	Virgilius	many things not said here		first property	tree rules
7	see	to-infinitive	many things not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	promise			great learning			nom promise «communication transitive»: of=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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