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description: It was drawn up very slowly, and by-and-by came altogether to a standstill, while from above rang the voice of Febilla crying, ‘Rogue of a sorcerer, there shalt thou hang!’ Who acts: thou. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 56

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It was drawn up very slowly, and by-and-by came altogether to a standstill, while from above rang the voice of Febilla crying, ‘Rogue of a sorcerer, there shalt thou hang!’

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** draw up, come, ring, cry, hang · **To what, where:** basket, standstill, voice, Rogue

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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 (thou), 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:pg641:43:56
# text = It was drawn up very slowly, and by-and-by came altogether to a standstill, while from above rang the voice of Febilla crying, ‘Rogue of a sorcerer, there shalt thou hang!’
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	standstill	standstill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	above	above	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	_
23	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Febilla	Febilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Rogue	rogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	39	expl	_	_
37	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nsubj	_	_
39	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw up** | past · passive |  | basket |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  | a standstill |  | altogether *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to standstill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **ring** | past |  | the voice of Febilla |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  | Rogue of a sorcerer |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hang** | shall | thou |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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