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title: And when the maiden appeared, clad in her white smock, flames of fir… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the maiden appeared, clad in her white smock, flames of fire curled about her, and the Romans brought some torches, and some straw, and some shavings, and fires were kindled in Rome again. Who acts: maiden, Romans, fire. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the So
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 63

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And when the maiden appeared, clad in her white smock, flames of fire curled about her, and the Romans brought some torches, and some straw, and some shavings, and fires were kindled in Rome again.

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**Who acts:** maiden, Romans, fire · **What happens:** appear, clad, curl, bring, kindle, flame · **To what, where:** straw, white smock, fire, torches, fires, Rome

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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 (maiden, Romans, fire), 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:pg641:43:63
# text = And when the maiden appeared, clad in her white smock, flames of fire curled about her, and the Romans brought some torches, and some straw, and some shavings, and fires were kindled in Rome again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	clad	clad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	smock	smock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	shavings	shaving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	again	again	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **clad** | past |  | some straw and some shavings |  | maiden's white smock and flames of fire |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **curl** | participle |  | fire *not said here* |  |  |  | about maiden | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past | the Romans | some torches |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent torch=Theme |
| 5 | **kindle** | past · passive |  | fires |  | Rome | again |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **flame** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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