The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 31
Soon after this had happened the season of tax-gathering came round, and everyone who owned land was bound to present himself before the emperor.
Who acts: this, season, everyone · What happens: happen, come round, own, be, present · To what, where: land, Virgilius
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 (this, season, everyone), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 happened | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 happened | mark |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | aux |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 season | det |
| 7 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gathering | case |
| 9 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathering | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 tax | punct |
| 11 | gathering | gathering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 season | nmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | parataxis |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bound | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bound | cc |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 bound | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 owned | nsubj |
| 18 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 owned | obj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bound | cop |
| 21 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 happened | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 present | mark |
| 23 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bound | xcomp |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 present | obj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 emperor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 emperor | det |
| 27 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 present | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · perfect | this | soon property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come round | past | the season of tax gathering | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | own | past | land | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | everyone | bound property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | present | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | Virgilius | before the emperor | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
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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