The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 54

To this end, she bade him one day come to visit her in the tower where she lived, promising to let down a basket to draw him up as far as the roof.

Who acts: face, basket · What happens: bade, come, visit, live, promise, let down · To what, where: Virgilius, face, tower, basket

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 (face, basket), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bade	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 end	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bade	nsubj
6	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bade	obj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl:unmarked
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bade	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 visit	mark
12	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	xcomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 visit	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 tower	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tower	det
16	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 visit	obl
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 lived	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tower	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 promising	punct
21	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 lived	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 let	mark
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 promising	xcomp
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 let	compound:prt
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 basket	det
26	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 draw	mark
28	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 draw	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 draw	compound:prt
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 far	advmod
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 draw	advmod
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 roof	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 roof	det
35	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 far	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bade	past	face	Virgilius		to this end		tree rules
2	come	infinitive	face not said here			day		tree rules
3	visit	to-infinitive	face not said here	face	the tower			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
4	live	past	face					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	promise speech: promise	gerund	face not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	let down not said to happen	to-infinitive	face not said here	a basket				tree rules
7	draw up	to-infinitive	a basket not said here	Virgilius			far property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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