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title: This reply naturally did not satisfy Virgilius, and, turning on his… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 34

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This reply naturally did not satisfy Virgilius, and, turning on his heel, he went back to his own home, and, gathering in his harvest, he stored it up in his various houses.

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**Who acts:** reply, Virgilius · **What happens:** not satisfy, turn, go back, gather, store up · **To what, where:** Virgilius, heel, harvest, reply, various houses

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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 (reply, 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:pg641:43:34
# text = This reply naturally did not satisfy Virgilius, and, turning on his heel, he went back to his own home, and, gathering in his harvest, he stored it up in his various houses.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	stored	store	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **satisfy** | past · do-support | this reply | Virgilius |  |  |  | naturally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus virgilius=Experiencer |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | Virgilius *not said here* |  |  | Virgilius's heel |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on heel=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go back** | past | Virgilius |  |  |  |  | to Virgilius's own home *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
| 4 | **gather** | gerund | Virgilius *not said here* |  |  | Virgilius's harvest |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **store up** | past | Virgilius | reply |  | Virgilius's various houses |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in house=Location |

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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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