The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 64
For three days she stood there, till every hearth in Rome was alight, and then she was suffered to go where she would.
Who acts: maiden, hearth · What happens: stand, be, suffer, go · To what, where: maiden
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 (maiden, hearth), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 alight | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 alight | mark |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 hearth | det |
| 10 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 alight | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Rome | case |
| 12 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hearth | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 alight | cop |
| 14 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 suffered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 suffered | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 suffered | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 suffered | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 suffered | aux:pass |
| 20 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stood | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 suffered | xcomp |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 would | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 would | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | maiden | there | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | every hearth in Rome | alight property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suffer | past · passive | maiden | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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