The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 35
When the enemies of Virgilius heard of this, they assembled together and laid siege to his castle.
Who acts: enemies · What happens: hear, assemble, lay · To what, where: siege
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 (enemies), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 enemies | det |
| 3 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Virgilius | case |
| 5 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 enemies | nmod |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 assembled | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 assembled | nsubj |
| 11 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 assembled | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laid | cc |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 assembled | conj |
| 15 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 castle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the enemies of Virgilius | of this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | assemble | past | enemies = enemy | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | enemies = enemy not said here | siege | to Virgilius's castle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result |
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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