The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 75

So the people chose three men who could be trusted, and, loading them with money, sent them to Rome, bidding them to pretend that they were diviners of dreams.

Who acts: people · What happens: choose, trust, load, send, bid, pretend · To what, where: three men, people, Rome, diviners

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 (people), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 chose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chose	nsubj
4	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chose	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 trusted	nsubj:pass
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 trusted	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 trusted	aux:pass
10	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 men	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 loading	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 loading	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 loading	punct
14	loading	load	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 chose	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loading	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 money	case
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loading	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chose	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sent	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Rome	case
22	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bidding	punct
24	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sent	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bidding	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 pretend	mark
27	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bidding	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 diviners	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 diviners	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 diviners	cop
31	diviners	diviner	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pretend	xcomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 dreams	case
33	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 diviners	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	choose	past	the people	three men			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	trust	could · passive		three men			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	load	gerund	the people not said here	people		with money	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with money=Theme
4	send	past	the people not said here	people	Rome		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to rome=Destination
5	bid	gerund	the people not said here	people			tree rules
6	pretend	to-infinitive	the people not said here				tree rules
7	is a	past	people	diviners		of dreams	tree rules

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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