The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 79
And leave having been given, the messengers took workmen and dug up the gold and made merry with it.
Who acts: you, messengers · What happens: leave, have, give, take, dig up, make · To what, where: workmen, gold
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 (you, messengers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 leave | cc |
| 2 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 leave | xcomp |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 having | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 messengers | det |
| 8 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leave | parataxis |
| 10 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dug | cc |
| 12 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 took | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 dug | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gold | det |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dug | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 18 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 made | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 merry | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | participle · passive | you not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the messengers | workmen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dig up | participle | the messengers not said here | the gold | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | past | the messengers not said here | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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