The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 9
‘Who calls?’ he asked, stopping and looking round.
Who acts: Virgilius · What happens: call, ask, stop, look round · 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 (Virgilius), 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 | _ | 3 calls | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 calls | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopping | punct |
| 9 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looking | cc |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stopping | conj |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Virgilius | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stop | gerund | Virgilius not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | look round | gerund | Virgilius not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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