The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 99

Virgilius, like the rest, listened to the stories that were told of her, and fell so violently in love with all he heard that he built a bridge in the air, which stretched all the way between Rome and Babylon.

Who acts: Virgilius, bridge · What happens: listen, tell, fall, hear, build, stretch · To what, where: rest, stories, love, bridge, air, way · 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, bridge), 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	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 fell	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rest	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 rest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Virgilius	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 listened	punct
7	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rest	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 stories	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stories	det
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 listened	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 told	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux:pass
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 stories	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 violently	advmod
20	violently	violently	ADV	_	18 fell	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 love	case
22	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 heard	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fell	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 built	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 built	nsubj
29	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 heard	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bridge	det
31	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 built	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 air	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 air	det
34	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bridge	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stretched	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 stretched	nsubj
37	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bridge	acl:relcl
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 way	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 way	det
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stretched	obj
41	between	between	ADP	_	42 Rome	case
42	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 way	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 Babylon	cc
44	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Rome	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	participle		the rest not said here		to the stories	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the stories		of Babylon	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	fall	past	Virgilius		love	violently property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
4	hear	past	Virgilius			with all	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	build	past	Virgilius	a bridge	the air		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Product
6	stretch	past	a bridge	all way		between Rome and Babylon	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Patient

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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