The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 89
The emperor, desiring nothing so much as the safety of his subjects, took counsel with Virgilius how this violence could be put down.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: desire, take, put down · To what, where: nothing, counsel, violence
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 (emperor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 emperor | punct |
| 4 | desiring | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 emperor | acl |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 desiring | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 safety | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 safety | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 safety | det |
| 10 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 desiring | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 subjects | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 13 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 safety | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 emperor | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Virgilius | case |
| 18 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 put | advmod |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 violence | det |
| 21 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 put | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 put | aux:pass |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 took | advcl |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 put | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | gerund | the emperor not said here | nothing | as the safety of emperor's subjects | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | the emperor | counsel | with Virgilius | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | put down | could · passive | this violence | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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