The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 92
Then make a proclamation that at ten o’clock a bell will toll, and every man is to enter his house, and not leave it again.’
Who acts: you, bell, man · What happens: make, toll, be, not leave · To what, where: proclamation, ten o’clock, bell
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 (you, bell, man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 make | advmod |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 proclamation | det |
| 4 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 toll | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 o’clock | case |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 o’clock | nummod |
| 8 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 toll | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bell | det |
| 10 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 toll | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 toll | aux |
| 12 | toll | toll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 proclamation | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enter | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 enter | cc |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enter | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 enter | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 enter | mark |
| 19 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 make | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enter | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 leave | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 leave | cc |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 leave | advmod |
| 25 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 make | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 leave | obj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 leave | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | a proclamation | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proclamation=Product | |||
| 2 | toll | future | a bell | a proclamation | ten o’clock | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | every man | enter property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not leave | infinitive | you not said here | bell | again | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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