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title: Having settled his affairs with the emperor and his enemies, Virgili… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Having settled his affairs with the emperor and his enemies, Virgilius had time to think of other things, and his first act was to fall in love! Who acts: Virgilius, first act. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 52

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Having settled his affairs with the emperor and his enemies, Virgilius had time to think of other things, and his first act was to fall in love!

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**Who acts:** Virgilius, first act · **What happens:** have, settle, think, be, act · **To what, where:** affairs, love

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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, first act), 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:pg641:43:52
# text = Having settled his affairs with the emperor and his enemies, Virgilius had time to think of other things, and his first act was to fall in love!
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	reparandum	_	_
2	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **settle** | past |  | Virgilius's affairs |  |  |  | with the emperor and Virgilius's enemies | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent affair=Theme with emperor=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | Virgilius |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Virgilius *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of other things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | Virgilius's first act |  |  | love |  | fall *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **act** |  | Virgilius |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: 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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