The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 38
After which he lifted the spell, and the invading army slunk back to Rome, and reported what Virgilius had said to the emperor.
Who acts: Virgilius, invading army · What happens: lift, invade, slink back, report, say · To what, where: spell, Rome, Virgilius · 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 (Virgilius, invading army), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lifted | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lifted | nsubj |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spell | det |
| 6 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slunk | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slunk | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 army | det |
| 10 | invading | invade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 army | amod |
| 11 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slunk | nsubj |
| 12 | slunk | slink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 slunk | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Rome | case |
| 15 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 slunk | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reported | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reported | cc |
| 18 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 said | obj |
| 20 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | aux |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 reported | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 emperor | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 emperor | det |
| 25 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Virgilius | the spell | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme | ||||
| 2 | invade | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | slink back | past | the invading army | Rome | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to rome=Destination | ||||
| 4 | report | past | Virgilius not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Virgilius | to the emperor | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner |
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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