The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 60
The emperor, guessing that this was the work of Virgilius, besought him to break the spell.
Who acts: this, emperor · What happens: guess, be, beseech, break · To what, where: work, Virgilius, spell · 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 (this, emperor), 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 | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 besought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessing | punct |
| 4 | guessing | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 emperor | appos |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 work | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 work | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 work | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 work | det |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessing | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Virgilius | case |
| 11 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 work | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 emperor | punct |
| 13 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 besought | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 break | mark |
| 16 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 besought | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spell | det |
| 18 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 break | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the work | of Virgilius | tree rules | |||
| 3 | beseech | past | the emperor | Virgilius | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | break | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | the spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient |
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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