The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 83

‘O, noble lords!’ said they, ‘last night in a vision we beheld twelve casks of gold lying under the foundation stone of the Capitol, on which stands the statue of the Preservation of Rome.

Who acts: noble lords, we, twelve casks · What happens: say, behold, lie, stand, preserve · To what, where: twelve casks, foundation stone, statue, Rome · 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 (noble lords, we, twelve casks), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lords	punct
4	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lords	amod
5	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 lords	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 lords	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beheld	obl:unmarked
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 vision	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 vision	det
16	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 night	nmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 beheld	nsubj
18	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 casks	nummod
20	casks	cask	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 beheld	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 gold	case
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 casks	nmod
23	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 casks	acl
24	under	under	ADP	_	27 stone	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stone	det
26	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stone	compound
27	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lying	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Capitol	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Capitol	det
30	Capitol	Capitol	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 stone	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stands	punct
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 stands	nsubj
34	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 beheld	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 statue	det
36	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stands	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Preservation	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Preservation	det
39	Preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 statue	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Rome	case
41	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Preservation	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	noble lords				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	behold	past	we	twelve casks of gold		night	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cask=Stimulus
3	lie	gerund	twelve casks of gold not said here		the foundation stone of the Capitol		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stone=Location
4	stand	present		the statue of the Preservation of Rome			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=Stimulus
5	preserve			Rome			nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient

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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