The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 91
‘Great prince,’ said he, ‘cause a copper horse and rider to be made, and stationed in front of the Capitol.
Who acts: Great prince, prince · What happens: say, cause, make, station · To what, where: copper horse, front · 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 (Great prince, prince), 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 prince | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cause | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cause | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 cause | punct |
| 10 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 12 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horse | compound |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cause | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rider | cc |
| 15 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horse | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 made | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 horse | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stationed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stationed | cc |
| 21 | stationed | station | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 front | case |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stationed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Capitol | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Capitol | det |
| 26 | Capitol | Capitol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 front | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Great prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cause | infinitive | prince | a copper horse and rider | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive · passive | prince not said here | a copper horse and rider not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 4 | station | participle | Great prince not said here | front of the Capitol | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in front=Destination |
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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