The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 58
At last the emperor, hearing of his plight, commanded Febilla to release him, and Virgilius went home vowing vengeance.
Who acts: Virgilius, plight · What happens: command, release, go, vow, hear, plight · To what, where: Febilla, Virgilius, vengeance · Speech: someone speaks here
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, plight), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 emperor | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 emperor | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 commanded | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearing | punct |
| 6 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 emperor | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 plight | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 plight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hearing | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 emperor | punct |
| 11 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Febilla | Febilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 commanded | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 release | mark |
| 14 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 commanded | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 release | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 commanded | conj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | vowing | vow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 went | advcl |
| 22 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vowing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Febilla | at the last emperor | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent febilla=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | release not said to happen | to-infinitive | Virgilius | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Virgilius | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | vow | gerund | Virgilius not said here | vengeance | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | Virgilius's plight | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | plight | Virgilius | nom plight «state 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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