The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 93
The emperor did as Virgilius advised, but thieves and murderers laughed at the horse, and went about their misdeeds as usual.
Who acts: emperor, Virgilius, thieves · What happens: do, advise, laugh, go
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, Virgilius, thieves), 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 | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 advised | mark |
| 5 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 advised | nsubj |
| 6 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 laughed | cc |
| 9 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laughed | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 murderers | cc |
| 11 | murderers | murderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thieves | conj |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laughed | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 misdeeds | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 misdeeds | nmod:poss |
| 21 | misdeeds | misdeed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 usual | case |
| 23 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the emperor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | Virgilius | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | thieves and murderers | at the horse | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | thieves and murderers not said here | about horses's misdeeds; as usual | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about misdeed=Location |
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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