The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 68
A pail was brought, and he, crying ‘Emperor, all hail! seek for me in Sicily,’ jumped headlong into the pail, and vanished from their sight.
Who acts: emperor, guards · What happens: bring, cry, seek, jump, vanish, sight · To what, where: pail, Emperor, Sicily, sight
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, guards), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pail | det |
| 2 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crying | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crying | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 crying | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crying | punct |
| 9 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 seek | advcl |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Emperor | punct |
| 11 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 crying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hail | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 hail | det |
| 14 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Emperor | appos |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Emperor | punct |
| 16 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seek | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Sicily | case |
| 20 | Sicily | Sicily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 seek | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 jumped | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 jumped | punct |
| 23 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 24 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 jumped | xcomp |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 pail | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pail | det |
| 27 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jumped | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 vanished | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 vanished | cc |
| 30 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 jumped | conj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 sight | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 sight | nmod:poss |
| 33 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 vanished | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | a pail | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | emperor | Emperor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic | ||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | Sicily | for me | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for i=Theme in sicily=Location | ||||
| 4 | jump | past | into the pail result; headlong property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pail=Result | |||||
| 5 | vanish | past | guards's sight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | sight | guards = guard | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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