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title: At last the emperor, hearing of his plight, commanded Febilla to rel… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the emperor, hearing of his plight, commanded Febilla to release him, and Virgilius went home vowing vengeance. Who acts: Virgilius, plight. 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 58

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At last the emperor, hearing of his plight, commanded Febilla to release him, and Virgilius went home vowing vengeance.

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**Who acts:** Virgilius, plight · **What happens:** command, release, go, vow, hear, plight · **To what, where:** Febilla, Virgilius, vengeance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, plight), 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:pg641:43:58
# text = At last the emperor, hearing of his plight, commanded Febilla to release him, and Virgilius went home vowing vengeance.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Febilla	Febilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	vowing	vow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past |  | Febilla |  |  |  | at the last emperor | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent febilla=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **release** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Virgilius |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source |
| 3 | **go** | past | Virgilius |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **vow** | gerund | Virgilius *not said here* | vengeance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** |  | Virgilius's plight |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **plight** |  | Virgilius |  |  |  |  |  | nom plight «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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