The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 52

Having settled his affairs with the emperor and his enemies, Virgilius had time to think of other things, and his first act was to fall in love!

Who acts: Virgilius, first act · What happens: have, settle, think, be, act · To what, where: affairs, love

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, first act), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 settled	reparandum
2	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 affairs	nmod:poss
4	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 settled	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 emperor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 emperor	det
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 settled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 enemies	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 enemies	nmod:poss
10	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 emperor	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 settled	parataxis
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 time	acl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 things	case
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 think	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fall	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fall	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 act	nmod:poss
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 act	amod
24	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fall	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fall	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fall	mark
27	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 love	case
29	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fall	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 settled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	settle	past		Virgilius's affairs			with the emperor and Virgilius's enemies	vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent affair=Theme with emperor=Location
3	have	past	Virgilius			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Virgilius not said here				of other things	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Virgilius's first act		love		fall property	tree rules
6	act		Virgilius					nom act «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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