The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 33

But as these were kinsmen to the emperor he gained nothing, as the emperor told him he would think over the matter for the next four years, and then give judgment.

Who acts: kinsmen, emperor, Virgilius · What happens: be, gain, tell, think, give · To what, where: kinsmen, nothing, Virgilius, matter, judgment · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (kinsmen, emperor, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 gained	mark
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 kinsmen	det
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kinsmen	cop
5	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gained	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 emperor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 emperor	det
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gained	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gained	nsubj
10	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	advcl
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 gained	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gained	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 told	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 emperor	det
15	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 think	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 think	aux
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	ccomp
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 matter	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 matter	det
23	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 think	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 years	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 years	det
26	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 years	amod
27	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 matter	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 give	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 give	advmod
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 think	conj
33	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		this kinsmen					tree rules
2	gain	past	this kinsmen	nothing				to the emperor result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient nothing=Extent to emperor=Result
3	tell speech: assert	past	the emperor		Virgilius				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	think speech: other	would	Virgilius			the matter for the next four years			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	infinitive	Virgilius not said here	judgment			then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=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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