The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 55
Virgilius was enchanted at this quite unexpected favour, and stepped with glee into the basket.
What happens: enchant, step · To what, where: Virgilius, unexpected favour, 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: 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 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 enchanted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 3 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 favour | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 favour | det |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 unexpected | advmod |
| 7 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 favour | amod |
| 8 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enchanted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stepped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stepped | cc |
| 11 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 enchanted | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 glee | case |
| 13 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stepped | obl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 basket | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 basket | det |
| 16 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stepped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · passive | Virgilius | this unexpected favour | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | step | participle | the basket | with glee | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into basket=Destination |
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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