The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 80

A few days later the diviners again appeared before the senate, and said, ‘Oh, noble lords, grant us leave to seek out another treasure, which has been revealed to us in a dream as lying under the bridge over the river.’

Who acts: diviners · What happens: appear, say, grant, leave, seek out, reveal · To what, where: senate, noble lords, us, treasure, dream, bridge · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (diviners), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 appeared	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 diviners	det
6	diviners	diviner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 appeared	nsubj
7	again	again	ADV	_	8 appeared	advmod
8	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 senate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 senate	det
11	senate	senate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 appeared	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 appeared	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lords	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 lords	punct
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 lords	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Oh	punct
19	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lords	amod
20	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grant	punct
22	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 grant	obj
24	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 grant	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 seek	mark
26	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 leave	xcomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 seek	compound:prt
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 treasure	det
29	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seek	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 revealed	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 revealed	nsubj:pass
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 revealed	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 revealed	aux:pass
34	revealed	reveal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 treasure	acl:relcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 us	case
36	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 revealed	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 dream	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 dream	det
39	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 revealed	obl
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 lying	mark
41	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 revealed	advcl
42	under	under	ADP	_	44 bridge	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bridge	det
44	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lying	obl
45	over	over	ADP	_	47 river	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 river	det
47	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lying	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 appeared	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the diviners			the senate	again	late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before senate=Location
2	say speech: assert	past		noble lords					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	grant	infinitive		us					tree rules
4	leave	infinitive							tree rules
5	seek out	to-infinitive		another treasure					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
6	reveal	present · perfect · passive		another treasure	us	a dream			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to we=Recipient
7	lie	gerund				the bridge		over the river	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bridge=Location

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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