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title: Of course, Virgilius paid no attention to this behaviour, though he… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course, Virgilius paid no attention to this behaviour, though he noticed they looked with envy on the rich presents he bestowed on the poorer relations and on anyone who had been kind to his mother. Who acts: Virgilius, kinsmen, rich. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgiliu
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 30

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Of course, Virgilius paid no attention to this behaviour, though he noticed they looked with envy on the rich presents he bestowed on the poorer relations and on anyone who had been kind to his mother.

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**Who acts:** Virgilius, kinsmen, rich · **What happens:** pay, notice, look, present, bestow, be · **To what, where:** attention, poorer relations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, kinsmen, rich), 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:pg641:43:30
# text = Of course, Virgilius paid no attention to this behaviour, though he noticed they looked with envy on the rich presents he bestowed on the poorer relations and on anyone who had been kind to his mother.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
22	presents	present	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	poorer	poor	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	conj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
35	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past |  | no attention |  |  |  | of Virgilius; to this behaviour | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 2 | **notice** | past | Virgilius |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** | past | kinsmen *= kinsman* |  |  |  |  | with envy | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **present** | present | the rich |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bestow** | participle | Virgilius |  |  | the poorer relations |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | to Virgilius's mother; kind *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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