The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 47

Some were half way up the ladders, some had one foot over the wall, but wherever they might chance to be there every man remained, even the emperor and his sorcerer.

Who acts: Some, foes, man · What happens: be, have, chance, remain · To what, where: way, one foot, wall

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 (Some, foes, man), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 way	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
3	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 way	advmod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 ladders	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ladders	det
7	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 way	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 way	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 foot	nummod
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 wall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chance	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 chance	cc
18	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	21 chance	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 chance	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 chance	aux
21	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 there	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 there	cop
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 chance	acl
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 remained	nsubj
27	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 there	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 emperor	punct
29	even	even	ADV	_	31 emperor	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 emperor	det
31	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chance	appos
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sorcerer	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sorcerer	nmod:poss
34	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 emperor	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Some	way		up the ladders; half property	tree rules
2	have	past	some	one foot	the wall		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
3	chance	might	foes = foe			wherever property	tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	some not said here			there property	tree rules
5	remain	past	every man				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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