The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 49
The emperor, who by this time was thoroughly frightened, said he would agree to anything Virgilius desired.
Who acts: emperor, Virgilius · What happens: frighten, say, agree, desire · To what, where: emperor · 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 (emperor, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 frightened | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frightened | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 frightened | aux:pass |
| 9 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 10 frightened | advmod |
| 10 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 emperor | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 emperor | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 agree | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 agree | aux |
| 15 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 anything | case |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 agree | obl |
| 18 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 desired | nsubj |
| 19 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 anything | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the emperor | time | thoroughly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | would | emperor | to anything | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | desire | past | Virgilius | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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