The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 73
Then they made ready their armies, and marched against the foe.
Who acts: senators · What happens: make, march · To what, where: ready armies, foe
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 (senators), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 armies | amod |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 armies | nmod:poss |
| 6 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 marched | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 marched | cc |
| 9 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 foe | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foe | det |
| 12 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marched | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | senators = senator | senators's ready armies | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset army=Product | |||
| 2 | march | past | senators = senator not said here | the foe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against foe=Trajectory |
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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