The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 71
On the roof of the Capitol, which was the most famous public building in the city, he set up statues representing the gods worshipped by every nation subject to Rome, and in the middle stood the god of Rome herself.
Who acts: Capitol, Virgilius, statues · What happens: be, set up, represent, worshipp, stand · To what, where: famous public building, city, statues, roof, gods, god
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 (Capitol, Virgilius, statues), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 roof | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roof | det |
| 3 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Capitol | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Capitol | det |
| 6 | Capitol | Capitol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 roof | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 building | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 building | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 building | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 building | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 famous | advmod |
| 12 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 building | amod |
| 13 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 building | amod |
| 14 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Capitol | appos |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 building | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 roof | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 set | obj |
| 23 | representing | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 statues | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gods | det |
| 25 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 representing | obj |
| 26 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 gods | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 subject | case |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 subject | det |
| 29 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 subject | compound |
| 30 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 worshipped | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Rome | case |
| 32 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 subject | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 stood | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 stood | cc |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 middle | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 middle | det |
| 37 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stood | obl |
| 38 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 set | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 god | det |
| 40 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stood | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Rome | case |
| 42 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 god | nmod |
| 43 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 stood | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Capitol | the famous public building | the city | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set up | past | Virgilius | statues | the roof of the Capitol | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent statue=Theme on roof=Destination | |||
| 3 | represent | gerund | statues not said here | the gods | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot god=Theme | ||||
| 4 | worshipp | participle | the gods not said here | by every nation subject to Rome | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | Virgilius not said here | the god of Rome | the middle | Rome obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent god=Theme in middle=Destination |
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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