The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 53

The lady’s name was Febilla, and her family was noble, and her face fairer than any in Rome, but she only mocked Virgilius, and was always playing tricks upon him.

Who acts: name, family, face, lady · What happens: be, mock, play, name · To what, where: Febilla, Virgilius, tricks

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 (name, family, face, lady), 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 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 lady	case
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Febilla	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Febilla	cop
6	Febilla	Febilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 noble	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 noble	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 family	nmod:poss
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 noble	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 noble	cop
12	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Febilla	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fairer	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fairer	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 face	nmod:poss
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fairer	nsubj
17	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 noble	parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 any	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 fairer	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Rome	case
21	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 any	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mocked	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 mocked	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 mocked	nsubj
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 mocked	advmod
26	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fairer	conj
27	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 mocked	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 playing	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 playing	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 playing	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 playing	advmod
32	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 mocked	advcl
33	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 playing	obj
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 playing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Febilla	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the lady's name	Febilla		tree rules
2	is	past	Febilla's family		noble property	tree rules
3	mock	past	face	Virgilius		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virgilius=Theme
4	play	past · progressive	face not said here	tricks	upon Virgilius; always property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
5	name		the lady			nom name «communication 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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