The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 85

And receiving permission they began to dig, and when the messengers had almost undermined the Capitol they stole away as secretly as they had come.

Who acts: workers, Capitol · What happens: receive, begin, dig, undermine, steal away, come · To what, where: permission, messengers

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 (workers, Capitol), 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 receiving	cc
2	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 receiving	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 permission	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dig	mark
7	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 undermined	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 undermined	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 undermined	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 messengers	det
12	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 undermined	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 undermined	aux
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 undermined	advmod
15	undermined	undermine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 receiving	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Capitol	det
17	Capitol	Capitol	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 stole	nsubj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stole	nsubj
19	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 undermined	parataxis
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 stole	advmod
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 secretly	advmod
22	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	19 stole	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 come	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 secretly	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 receiving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	gerund		permission		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme
2	begin	past	workers = worker	permission not said here		tree rules
3	dig	to-infinitive	workers = worker not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	undermine	past · perfect · passive		the messengers	almost property	tree rules
5	steal away	past	the Capitol		away, secretly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past · perfect	workers = worker			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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