--- title: A pail was brought, and he, crying ‘Emperor, all hail! seek for me i… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: A pail was brought, and he, crying ‘Emperor, all hail! seek for me in Sicily,’ jumped headlong into the pail, and vanished from their sight. Who acts: emperor, guards. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, guards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:43:68 # text = A pail was brought, and he, crying ‘Emperor, all hail! seek for me in Sicily,’ jumped headlong into the pail, and vanished from their sight. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pail pail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 hail hail NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 16 seek seek VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Sicily Sicily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 23 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 headlong headlong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 pail pail NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past · passive | | a pail | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | emperor | Emperor | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic | | 3 | **seek** | infinitive | | | | Sicily | | for me | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for i=Theme in sicily=Location | | 4 | **jump** | past | | | | | | into the pail *result*; headlong *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pail=Result | | 5 | **vanish** | past | | | | guards's sight | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **sight** | | guards *= guard* | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/69/) - ↑ back to [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/)