The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 40
But he got together another army, and marched straight off to the castle.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: get together, march · To what, where: army
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 (emperor), 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 | _ | 3 got | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 army | det |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 marched | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 marched | cc |
| 9 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 off | advmod |
| 11 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 marched | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marched | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get together | past | emperor | another army | together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | march | past | emperor not said here | to the castle result; off property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=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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