The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 37

Coming forth from the castle so as to meet them face to face, he cast a spell over them of such power that they could not move, and then bade them defiance.

Who acts: Virgilius, enemies · What happens: come, meet, face, cast, not move, bade · To what, where: castle, enemies, spell, such power

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, 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	Coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 meet	advcl
2	forth	forth	ADV	_	1 Coming	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 castle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Coming	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 meet	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 meet	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 meet	mark
9	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 meet	obj
11	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 meet	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 face	case
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 face	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cast	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cast	nsubj
16	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 meet	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 spell	det
18	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cast	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spell	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 power	case
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 power	amod
23	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spell	nmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 move	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 move	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 move	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 move	advmod
28	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 power	acl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bade	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bade	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 bade	advmod
32	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cast	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bade	obj
34	defiance	defiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bade	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 meet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund			the castle		forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial_Location
2	meet	to-infinitive		enemies = enemy				tree rules
3	face	infinitive					to face	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	cast	past	Virgilius	a spell of such power			over enemies = enemy	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over they=Destination
5	not move	could	enemies = enemy	such power not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent power=Theme
6	bade	past	Virgilius not said here	enemies = enemy		then		tree rules
7	spell			such power			over enemies = enemy	nom spell «state transitive»: over=obl of=patient

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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