The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 82
A week or two passed by, and once more they appeared in the senate house.
Who acts: senators · What happens: pass by, appear · To what, where: week, senate house
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), 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 | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 two | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 week | conj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 passed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 appeared | cc |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 appeared | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 15 | senate | senate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | compound |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle · passive | a week | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | senators = senator | the senate house | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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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