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title: Soon after this had happened the season of tax-gathering came round,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after this had happened the season of tax-gathering came round, and everyone who owned land was bound to present himself before the emperor. Who acts: this, season, everyone. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 31

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Soon after this had happened the season of tax-gathering came round, and everyone who owned land was bound to present himself before the emperor.

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**Who acts:** this, season, everyone · **What happens:** happen, come round, own, be, present · **To what, where:** land, Virgilius

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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 (this, season, everyone), 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:pg641:43:31
# text = Soon after this had happened the season of tax-gathering came round, and everyone who owned land was bound to present himself before the emperor.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past · perfect | this |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come round** | past | the season of tax gathering |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **own** | past |  | land |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | bound *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **present** | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | Virgilius |  |  | before the emperor |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |

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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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