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title: And in the city was a square tower, and on the roof of the tower was… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in the city was a square tower, and on the roof of the tower was a rod of iron, and across the rod he laid a bottle, and on the bottle he placed an egg, and from the egg there hung chained an apple, which hangs there to this day. Who acts: Virgilius, apple. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 116

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And in the city was a square tower, and on the roof of the tower was a rod of iron, and across the rod he laid a bottle, and on the bottle he placed an egg, and from the egg there hung chained an apple, which hangs there to this day.

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**Who acts:** Virgilius, apple · **What happens:** be, lay, place, chain, hang · **To what, where:** square tower, city, rod, roof, bottle, egg

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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, apple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg641:43:116
# text = And in the city was a square tower, and on the roof of the tower was a rod of iron, and across the rod he laid a bottle, and on the bottle he placed an egg, and from the egg there hung chained an apple, which hangs there to this day.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	across	across	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
46	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
52	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
56	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a square tower and a rod |  | the city |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a rod |  | the roof of the tower |  | of iron | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | past | Virgilius | a bottle |  | the rod |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Result |
| 4 | **place** | past | Virgilius | a egg |  | the bottle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on bottle=Destination |
| 5 | **chain** | past · passive |  | the egg |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient apple=Result |
| 6 | **hang** | present | a apple |  |  | there | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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