The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 69
For some time we hear no more of Virgilius, or how he made his peace with the emperor, but the next event in his history was his being sent for to the palace to give the emperor advice how to guard Rome from foes within as well as foes without.
Who acts: we, emperor · What happens: hear, make, send, give, guard, pacify · To what, where: more, peace, next event, emperor advice, Rome
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 (we, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 hear | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Virgilius | case |
| 9 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 more | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 made | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 peace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 emperor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 emperor | det |
| 19 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sent | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 sent | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 event | det |
| 23 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 event | amod |
| 24 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 history | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 history | nmod:poss |
| 27 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 event | nmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sent | aux:pass |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 sent | aux:pass |
| 31 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 made | parataxis |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 palace | case |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 palace | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 palace | det |
| 35 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sent | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 give | mark |
| 37 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 sent | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 advice | det |
| 39 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 advice | compound |
| 40 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 give | obj |
| 41 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 guard | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 guard | mark |
| 43 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 advice | acl:relcl |
| 44 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 guard | obj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 foes | case |
| 46 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 guard | obl |
| 47 | within | within | ADP | _ | 51 foes | case |
| 48 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 51 foes | cc |
| 49 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 as | fixed |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 as | fixed |
| 51 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 give | obl |
| 52 | without | without | ADP | _ | 37 give | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | we | more | time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | past | emperor | emperor's peace | with the emperor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product | |||
| 3 | send | past · passive | the next event in emperor's history | for the palace | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | the emperor advice | within foes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | guard | to-infinitive | the emperor advice not said here | Rome | from foes | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent rome=Beneficiary from foe=Theme | |||
| 6 | pacify | emperor | nom peace «state 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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