The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 67
He went quietly with his guards, but the day was hot, and on reaching his place of execution he begged for some water.
Who acts: emperor, day · What happens: go, be, reach, beg · To what, where: place
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, day), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 guards | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 guards | nmod:poss |
| 6 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hot | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hot | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hot | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hot | cop |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 begged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 begged | cc |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 reaching | mark |
| 16 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 begged | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reaching | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 execution | case |
| 20 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 begged | nsubj |
| 22 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 begged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | emperor | with emperor's guards; quietly property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with guard=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the day | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | emperor not said here | emperor's place of execution | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | emperor | for some water | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for water=Topic |
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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