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description: So he entrusted to the messenger four pack-horses laden with precious things, and a white palfrey on which she was to ride out every day. Who acts: Virgilius, palfrey. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 27

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So he entrusted to the messenger four pack-horses laden with precious things, and a white palfrey on which she was to ride out every day.

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**Who acts:** Virgilius, palfrey · **What happens:** entrust, lade, be · **To what, where:** messenger, four pack horses

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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, palfrey), 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:pg641:43:27
# text = So he entrusted to the messenger four pack-horses laden with precious things, and a white palfrey on which she was to ride out every day.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entrusted	entrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	palfrey	palfrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entrust** | past | Virgilius |  | the messenger  four pack horses |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to messenger=Recipient |
| 2 | **lade** | participle |  | four pack horses *not said here* |  |  |  | with precious things | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | palfrey |  |  |  | day | on a white palfrey; ride *property* | tree rules |

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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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