The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 81

And the senators gave leave, and the messengers hired boats and men, and let down ropes with hooks, and at length drew up the pot of gold, some of which they gave as presents to the senators.

Who acts: senators, messengers, some · What happens: give, hire, let down, draw up · To what, where: leave, boats, ropes, pot, length, senators

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, messengers, some), 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	_	4 gave	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 senators	det
3	senators	senator	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hired	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hired	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 messengers	det
9	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hired	nsubj
10	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hired	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 men	cc
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 boats	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 let	compound:prt
18	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 let	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 hooks	case
20	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 let	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drew	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 length	case
24	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drew	obl
25	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 drew	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pot	det
28	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drew	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 gold	case
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pot	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gave	punct
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 gave	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 gave	obl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gave	nsubj
36	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 drew	conj
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 presents	case
38	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 gave	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 senators	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 senators	det
41	senators	senator	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 gave	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the senators	leave				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
2	hire	past	the messengers	boats and men				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	let down	infinitive	the senators not said here	ropes			with hooks	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
4	draw up	past		the pot of gold		length		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
5	give	past	some		the senators		as presents	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to senator=Recipient

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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