The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 59
The next morning every fire in Rome went out, and as there were no matches in those days this was a very serious matter.
Who acts: fire, this · What happens: go out, be · To what, where: serious matter
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 (fire, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Rome | case |
| 7 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fire | nmod |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 went | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 matter | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 matter | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 were | mark |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 were | expl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 matter | cop |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 matches | det |
| 16 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 were | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 days | det |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 matches | nmod |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 matter | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 matter | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 matter | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 serious | advmod |
| 24 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 matter | amod |
| 25 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | every fire in Rome | morning | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | a serious matter | 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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