The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 65

But the emperor was wroth at the vengeance of Virgilius, and threw him into prison, vowing that he should be put to death.

Who acts: emperor · What happens: be, throw, vow, put · To what, where: vengeance, emperor, prison

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 wroth	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wroth	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wroth	cop
5	wroth	wroth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 vengeance	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vengeance	det
8	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wroth	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Virgilius	case
10	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 vengeance	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threw	cc
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wroth	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 prison	case
16	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 vowing	punct
18	vowing	vow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 threw	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 put	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 put	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 put	aux:pass
23	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 vowing	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 death	case
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wroth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the emperor		the vengeance of Virgilius	wroth property	tree rules
2	throw	past		emperor		into prison result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into prison=Result
3	vow	gerund					tree rules
4	put	should · passive		emperor		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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