The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 48

All day they stayed there like flies upon the wall, but during the night Virgilius stole softly to the emperor, and offered him his freedom, as long as he would do him justice.

Who acts: foes, Virgilius · What happens: stay, steal, offer, do · To what, where: freedom, Virgilius, emperor

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 (foes, Virgilius), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stayed	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 flies	case
7	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stayed	obl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flies	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stole	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 stole	cc
13	during	during	ADP	_	15 night	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stole	obl
16	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 stole	nsubj
17	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
18	softly	softly	ADV	_	17 stole	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 emperor	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 emperor	det
21	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stole	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 offered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 offered	cc
24	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 offered	iobj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 freedom	nmod:poss
27	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 offered	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 long	punct
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 long	advmod
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 offered	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 do	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 do	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 do	aux
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 long	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 do	obj
36	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 do	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	foes = foe			there	day	like flies upon the wall	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	steal	past	Virgilius				night	to the emperor; softly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	offer	past	foes = foe not said here	Virgilius's freedom	Virgilius			long property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal freedom=Theme
4	do	would	Virgilius	emperor					tree rules

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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