--- title: And more than that, he built a square tower for the emperor, and in… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And more than that, he built a square tower for the emperor, and in each corner all that was said in that quarter of the city might be heard, while if you stood in the centre every whisper throughout Rome would reach your ears. Who acts: Virgilius, corner, you, Rome. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/51/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/) / 51 # The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 51 And more than that, he built a square tower for the emperor, and in each corner all that was said in that quarter of the city might be heard, while if you stood in the centre every whisper throughout Rome would reach your ears. **Who acts:** Virgilius, corner, you, Rome · **What happens:** build, say, hear, stand, reach · **To what, where:** square tower, corner, quarter, whisper, centre, ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, corner, you, Rome), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:43:51 # text = And more than that, he built a square tower for the emperor, and in each corner all that was said in that quarter of the city might be heard, while if you stood in the centre every whisper throughout Rome would reach your ears. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 3 than than ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 20 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 41 whisper whisper NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 throughout throughout ADP IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 44 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 46 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past | Virgilius | a square tower | | | | for the emperor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tower=Material for emperor=Beneficiary | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | each corner *not said here* | each corner | | that quarter of the city | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in quarter=Manner | | 3 | **hear** | might · passive | | | | each corner | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | | 4 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | every whisper | | the centre | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location | | 5 | **reach** | would | Rome | your ears | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/52/) - ↑ back to [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/)