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title: And further, he bade every one to snatch fire from the maiden, and t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And further, he bade every one to snatch fire from the maiden, and to suffer no neighbour to kindle it. 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 62

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And further, he bade every one to snatch fire from the maiden, and to suffer no neighbour to kindle it.

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**What happens:** snatch, suffer, kindle · **To what, where:** fire, maiden, neighbour

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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: 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:pg641:43:62
# text = And further, he bade every one to snatch fire from the maiden, and to suffer no neighbour to kindle it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	further	further	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	snatch	snatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	kindle	kindle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch** | to-infinitive |  | fire |  | the maiden |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from maiden=Source |
| 2 | **suffer** | to-infinitive |  | no neighbour |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus |
| 3 | **kindle** | to-infinitive |  | fire |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient |

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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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