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title: Coming forth from the castle so as to meet them face to face, he cas… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Coming forth from the castle so as to meet them face to face, he cast a spell over them of such power that they could not move, and then bade them defiance. Who acts: Virgilius, enemies. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 37

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Coming forth from the castle so as to meet them face to face, he cast a spell over them of such power that they could not move, and then bade them defiance.

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**Who acts:** Virgilius, enemies · **What happens:** come, meet, face, cast, not move, bade · **To what, where:** castle, enemies, spell, such power

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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, enemies), 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:pg641:43:37
# text = Coming forth from the castle so as to meet them face to face, he cast a spell over them of such power that they could not move, and then bade them defiance.
1	Coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	meet	meet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	defiance	defiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  | the castle |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **face** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to face | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cast** | past | Virgilius | a spell of such power |  |  |  | over enemies *= enemy* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over they=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **move** | could | enemies *= enemy* | such power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
| 6 | **bade** | past | Virgilius *not said here* | enemies *= enemy* |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **spell** |  |  | such power |  |  |  | over enemies *= enemy* | nom spell «state transitive»: over=obl 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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