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title: But at the end of that time a messenger from his mother arrived in T… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But at the end of that time a messenger from his mother arrived in Toledo, begging him to come at once to Rome, as she had been ill, and could look after their affairs no longer. Who acts: messenger, Rome. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer, with its depende
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 25

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But at the end of that time a messenger from his mother arrived in Toledo, begging him to come at once to Rome, as she had been ill, and could look after their affairs no longer.

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**Who acts:** messenger, Rome · **What happens:** arrive, beg, come, be, look · **To what, where:** end, messenger, Rome

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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 (messenger, Rome), 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:pg641:43:25
# text = But at the end of that time a messenger from his mother arrived in Toledo, begging him to come at once to Rome, as she had been ill, and could look after their affairs no longer.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
30	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
35	after	after	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	no	no	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | a messenger from messenger's mother |  |  |  | at the end of that time | in Toledo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | a messenger from messenger's mother *not said here* |  | messenger |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a messenger from messenger's mother *not said here* |  |  | Rome |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rome=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | Rome |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | could | a messenger from messenger's mother *not said here* |  |  |  | after books's affairs | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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