The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 61
Then Virgilius ordered a scaffold to be erected in the market-place, and Febilla to be brought clothed in a single white garment.
Who acts: Virgilius · What happens: order, erect, bring, clothe · To what, where: scaffold, market place, Febilla
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scaffold | det |
| 5 | scaffold | scaffold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 erected | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 erected | aux:pass |
| 8 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 scaffold | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 11 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 market | punct |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 erected | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 16 | Febilla | Febilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 brought | aux:pass |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | conj |
| 20 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 brought | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 garment | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 garment | det |
| 23 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 garment | amod |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 garment | amod |
| 25 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clothed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Virgilius | a scaffold | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scaffold=Theme | |||
| 2 | erect | to-infinitive · passive | Virgilius not said here | a scaffold not said here | the market place | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | |||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | Febilla | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | clothe | participle | in a single white garment | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in garment=Theme |
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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