The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 50

So Virgilius took off his spells, and, after feasting the army and bestowing on every man a gift, bade them return to Rome.

Who acts: Virgilius, gift · What happens: take off, feast, bestow, return, spell · To what, where: spells, army, gift, bade, Rome

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 (Virgilius, gift), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 spells	nmod:poss
6	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bestowing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bestowing	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 feasting	mark
11	feasting	feast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 bestowing	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 army	det
13	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feasting	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bestowing	cc
15	bestowing	bestow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bestowing	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 gift	det
20	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bestowing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bade	punct
22	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gift	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 return	nsubj
24	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bade	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Rome	case
26	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 return	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take off	past	Virgilius	Virgilius's spells			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme
2	feast	gerund		the army			tree rules
3	bestow	gerund	Virgilius not said here	a gift and bade		on every man	tree rules
4	return	present	gift	bade not said here	Rome		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bade=Theme to rome=Destination
5	spell		Virgilius				nom spell «state transitive»: 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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