The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 34
This reply naturally did not satisfy Virgilius, and, turning on his heel, he went back to his own home, and, gathering in his harvest, he stored it up in his various houses.
Who acts: reply, Virgilius · What happens: not satisfy, turn, go back, gather, store up · To what, where: Virgilius, heel, harvest, reply, various houses
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 (reply, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satisfy | nsubj |
| 3 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 6 satisfy | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfy | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 satisfy | advmod |
| 6 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 satisfy | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 11 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 went | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 heel | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heel | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heel | heel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turning | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfy | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 home | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 home | amod |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gathering | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gathering | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gathering | punct |
| 26 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 went | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 harvest | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 harvest | nmod:poss |
| 29 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gathering | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stored | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stored | nsubj |
| 32 | stored | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfy | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stored | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 stored | compound:prt |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 houses | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 houses | nmod:poss |
| 37 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 houses | amod |
| 38 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 stored | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not satisfy | past · do-support | this reply | Virgilius | naturally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus virgilius=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | Virgilius not said here | Virgilius's heel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on heel=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | Virgilius | to Virgilius's own home result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 4 | gather | gerund | Virgilius not said here | Virgilius's harvest | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | store up | past | Virgilius | reply | Virgilius's various houses | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in house=Location |
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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