The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 27
So he entrusted to the messenger four pack-horses laden with precious things, and a white palfrey on which she was to ride out every day.
Who acts: Virgilius, palfrey · What happens: entrust, lade, be · To what, where: messenger, four pack horses
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, palfrey), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 entrusted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entrusted | nsubj |
| 3 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 messenger | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 messenger | det |
| 6 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entrusted | obl |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horses | nummod |
| 8 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horses | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pack | punct |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 messenger | nmod |
| 11 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 horses | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 13 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 laden | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 palfrey | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 palfrey | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 palfrey | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 palfrey | amod |
| 19 | palfrey | palfrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entrusted | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 ride | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ride | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ride | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 ride | mark |
| 25 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 palfrey | parataxis |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 ride | compound:prt |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ride | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entrusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrust | past | Virgilius | the messenger four pack horses | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to messenger=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | four pack horses not said here | with precious things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | palfrey | day | on a white palfrey; ride property | tree rules |
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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