The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 66
And when everything was ready he was led out to the Viminal Hill, where he was to die.
Who acts: everything, Viminal Hill, emperor · What happens: be, lead out · To what, where: emperor
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 (everything, Viminal Hill, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ready | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ready | advmod |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 led | aux:pass |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ready | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 led | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Hill | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hill | det |
| 12 | Viminal | Viminal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hill | compound |
| 13 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl:agent |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 die | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 die | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 die | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 die | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 die | mark |
| 19 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Hill | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead out | past · passive | the Viminal Hill | emperor | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | emperor | die property | 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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