The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 28

Then he set about his own preparations, and, followed by a large train of scholars, he at length started for Rome, from which he had been absent twelve years.

Who acts: Virgilius · What happens: set, follow, start, be, prepare · To what, where: length, absent twelve years

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 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 preparations	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 preparations	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 preparations	amod
7	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 followed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 followed	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 followed	punct
11	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 set	parataxis
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 train	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 train	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 train	amod
15	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 followed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 scholars	case
17	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 train	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 started	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 started	nsubj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 length	case
21	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 started	obl
22	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 Rome	case
24	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 started	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 years	punct
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 years	nsubj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 years	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 years	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 years	cop
31	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 years	amod
32	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 started	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	Virgilius			then	about Virgilius's own preparations	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about preparation=Destination
2	follow	participle					by a large train of scholars	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by train=Location
3	start	past	Virgilius		length		for Rome	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	past · perfect		absent twelve years				tree rules
5	prepare		Virgilius					nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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