--- title: He then passed over it to visit the princess, who, though somewhat s… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He then passed over it to visit the princess, who, though somewhat surprised to see him, gave him welcome, and after some conversation became in her turn anxious to see the distant country where this stranger lived, and he promised that he would carry her there himself, without wetting the soles of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/100/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/) / 100 # The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 100 He then passed over it to visit the princess, who, though somewhat surprised to see him, gave him welcome, and after some conversation became in her turn anxious to see the distant country where this stranger lived, and he promised that he would carry her there himself, without wetting the soles of his feet. **Who acts:** Virgilius, conversation, stranger · **What happens:** pass, visit, see, give, become, turn · **To what, where:** rest, princess, Virgilius, distant country, soles · **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, conversation, stranger), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:43:100 # text = He then passed over it to visit the princess, who, though somewhat surprised to see him, gave him welcome, and after some conversation became in her turn anxious to see the distant country where this stranger lived, and he promised that he would carry her there himself, without wetting the soles of his feet. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 though though SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 somewhat somewhat ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 after after ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 29 in in SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 39 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 40 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 46 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 ccomp _ _ 50 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 49 advmod _ _ 52 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 without without SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 55 wetting wet VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 advcl _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 soles sole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obj _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 60 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | Virgilius | | | rest | then | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location | | 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Virgilius *not said here* | the princess | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Virgilius *not said here* | Virgilius | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 4 | **give** | past | Virgilius *not said here* | | Virgilius | | | welcome *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **become** | past | some conversation | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **turn** | infinitive | some conversation *not said here* | | | | | anxious *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | some conversation *not said here* | the distant country | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus | | 8 | **live** | past | this stranger | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Virgilius | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **carry** | would | Virgilius | princess | | there | | Virgilius *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 11 | **wet** | gerund | Virgilius *not said here* | the soles of Virgilius's feet | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sole=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. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/101/) - ↑ back to [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/)