The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 3
Virgilius was fond of books, and pored over them all day long.
Who acts: Virgilius · What happens: be, pore
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 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fond | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fond | cop |
| 3 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 books | case |
| 5 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fond | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pored | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pored | cc |
| 8 | pored | pore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fond | conj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pored | obl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pored | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 pored | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Virgilius | of books; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pore | participle | Virgilius not said here | day | over books = book; long 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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