The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 57
And there he hung over the market-place, which was soon thronged with people, who made fun of him till he was mad with rage.
Who acts: Virgilius, people · What happens: hang, throng, make, be · To what, where: market place, fun
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, people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hung | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 hung | expl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hung | nsubj |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 market | punct |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thronged | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 thronged | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thronged | aux:pass |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 thronged | advmod |
| 14 | thronged | throng | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thronged | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 people | acl:relcl |
| 20 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fun | nmod |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 mad | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 mad | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 mad | cop |
| 26 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 made | xcomp |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 rage | case |
| 28 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mad | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | Virgilius | the market place; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over place=Location | ||||
| 2 | throng | past · passive | the market place | with people; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | people | fun of Virgilius | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Virgilius | with rage; mad property | tree rules |
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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