The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 70

Virgilius spent many days in deep thought, and at length invented a plan which was known to all as the ‘Preservation of Rome.’

Who acts: Virgilius · What happens: spend, invent, know, preserve · To what, where: deep thought, plan, length, 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 (Virgilius), 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	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spent	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 thought	case
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	amod
7	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 invented	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 invented	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 length	case
11	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 invented	obl
12	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spent	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 plan	det
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 invented	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 known	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 known	aux:pass
17	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 plan	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 known	obl
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 Preservation	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Preservation	det
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Preservation	punct
23	Preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 known	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Rome	case
25	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Preservation	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	Virgilius		deep thought	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	invent	past	Virgilius not said here	a plan	length			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
3	know	past · passive		a plan			to all; as the Preservation of Rome	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as preservation=Attribute
4	preserve			Rome				nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient

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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