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title: So Virgilius took off his spells, and, after feasting the army and b… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Virgilius took off his spells, and, after feasting the army and bestowing on every man a gift, bade them return to Rome. Who acts: Virgilius, gift. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 50

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So Virgilius took off his spells, and, after feasting the army and bestowing on every man a gift, bade them return to Rome.

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**Who acts:** Virgilius, gift · **What happens:** take off, feast, bestow, return, spell · **To what, where:** spells, army, gift, bade, Rome

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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, gift), 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:pg641:43:50
# text = So Virgilius took off his spells, and, after feasting the army and bestowing on every man a gift, bade them return to Rome.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	feasting	feast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bestowing	bestow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | past | Virgilius | Virgilius's spells |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme |
| 2 | **feast** | gerund |  | the army |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bestow** | gerund | Virgilius *not said here* | a gift and bade |  |  |  | on every man | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** | present | gift | bade *not said here* | Rome |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bade=Theme to rome=Destination |
| 5 | **spell** |  | Virgilius |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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