The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 74
Now there was a country which had long felt bitter jealousy of Rome, and was anxious for some way of bringing about its destruction.
Who acts: way · What happens: feel, be, bring, destroy · To what, where: country
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 (way), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 anxious | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 felt | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 felt | aux |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 felt | advmod |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 country | acl:relcl |
| 10 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 jealousy | amod |
| 11 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Rome | case |
| 13 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 jealousy | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 anxious | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 anxious | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 anxious | cop |
| 17 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 anxious | obl |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 bringing | mark |
| 22 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 way | acl |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 destruction | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 25 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bringing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 anxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · perfect · passive | a country | long property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme jealousy=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | for some way; anxious property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | some way not said here | about way's destruction | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | destroy | way | nom destruction «act 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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