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title: Though sorry to leave Toledo, where he was much thought of as showin… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Though sorry to leave Toledo, where he was much thought of as showing promise of great learning, Virgilius would willingly have set out at once, but there were many things he had first to see to. Who acts: great learning, many things, Virgilius. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 26

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Though sorry to leave Toledo, where he was much thought of as showing promise of great learning, Virgilius would willingly have set out at once, but there were many things he had first to see to.

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**Who acts:** great learning, many things, Virgilius · **What happens:** leave, think, show, set out, be, have · **To what, where:** Toledo, promise, Virgilius, many things, great learning

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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 (great learning, many things, Virgilius), 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:pg641:43:26
# text = Though sorry to leave Toledo, where he was much thought of as showing promise of great learning, Virgilius would willingly have set out at once, but there were many things he had first to see to.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
31	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | Toledo |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toledo=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | Toledo |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | gerund |  | promise of great learning |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent promise=Recipient |
| 4 | **set out** | would · perfect · passive | great learning *not said here* | Virgilius |  |  |  | willingly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | past | many things |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | Virgilius | many things *not said here* |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | many things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **promise** |  |  | great learning |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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