The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 56

It was drawn up very slowly, and by-and-by came altogether to a standstill, while from above rang the voice of Febilla crying, ‘Rogue of a sorcerer, there shalt thou hang!’

Who acts: thou · What happens: draw up, come, ring, cry, hang · To what, where: basket, standstill, voice, Rogue

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 (thou), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drawn	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drawn	aux:pass
3	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 drawn	compound:prt
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 slowly	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 drawn	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
9	by	by	ADP	_	14 came	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 by	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 by	cc
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 by	punct
13	by	by	ADP	_	9 by	fixed
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drawn	parataxis
15	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 standstill	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 standstill	det
18	standstill	standstill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rang	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 rang	mark
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 above	case
22	above	above	ADV	_	23 rang	obl
23	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drawn	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 voice	det
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rang	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Febilla	case
27	Febilla	Febilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 voice	nmod
28	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 rang	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Rogue	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 Rogue	punct
31	Rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crying	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sorcerer	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sorcerer	det
34	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Rogue	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hang	punct
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 hang	expl
37	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	39 hang	aux
38	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 hang	nsubj
39	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drawn	parataxis
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 hang	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 hang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw up	past · passive		basket		slowly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	past			a standstill	altogether property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to standstill=Initial_Location
3	ring	past		the voice of Febilla			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund		Rogue of a sorcerer			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hang	shall	thou		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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