The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 44

His proposals were gladly accepted, and in a moment the whole of the garrison sank down as if they were dead, and Virgilius himself had much ado to keep awake.

Who acts: moment, proposals, Virgilius, much ado, emperor · What happens: accept, sink down, be, have, keep, propose · To what, where: proposals, much ado

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 (moment, proposals, Virgilius, much ado), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 proposals	nmod:poss
2	proposals	proposal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 accepted	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accepted	aux:pass
4	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	5 accepted	advmod
5	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sank	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sank	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 moment	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sank	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whole	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moment	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 garrison	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garrison	det
15	garrison	garrison	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whole	obl
16	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accepted	parataxis
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sank	compound:prt
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 dead	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 dead	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dead	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sank	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
25	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	25 Virgilius	nmod:unmarked
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accepted	conj
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ado	amod
29	ado	ado	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 keep	mark
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
32	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 keep	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accept	past · passive		emperor's proposals	gladly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	sink down	past	a moment			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	proposals = proposal		dead property	tree rules
4	have	past	Virgilius emperor	much ado		tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	much ado not said here		awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	propose		emperor			nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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