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title: To this end, she bade him one day come to visit her in the tower whe… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To this end, she bade him one day come to visit her in the tower where she lived, promising to let down a basket to draw him up as far as the roof. Who acts: face, basket. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 54

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To this end, she bade him one day come to visit her in the tower where she lived, promising to let down a basket to draw him up as far as the roof.

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**Who acts:** face, basket · **What happens:** bade, come, visit, live, promise, let down · **To what, where:** Virgilius, face, tower, basket

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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 (face, basket), 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:pg641:43:54
# text = To this end, she bade him one day come to visit her in the tower where she lived, promising to let down a basket to draw him up as far as the roof.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | face | Virgilius |  |  | to this end |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | face *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | face *not said here* | face |  | the tower |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **live** | past | face |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **let down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | face *not said here* | a basket |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **draw up** | to-infinitive | a basket *not said here* | Virgilius |  |  |  | far *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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