--- title: For some time we hear no more of Virgilius, or how he made his peace… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For some time we hear no more of Virgilius, or how he made his peace with the emperor, but the next event in his history was his being sent for to the palace to give the emperor advice how to guard Rome from foes within as well as foes without. Who acts: we, emperor. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/) / 69 # The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 69 For some time we hear no more of Virgilius, or how he made his peace with the emperor, but the next event in his history was his being sent for to the palace to give the emperor advice how to guard Rome from foes within as well as foes without. **Who acts:** we, emperor · **What happens:** hear, make, send, give, guard, pacify · **To what, where:** more, peace, next event, emperor advice, Rome 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 (we, emperor), 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:pg641:43:69 # text = For some time we hear no more of Virgilius, or how he made his peace with the emperor, but the next event in his history was his being sent for to the palace to give the emperor advice how to guard Rome from foes within as well as foes without. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Virgilius Virgilius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 foes foe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 47 within within ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 51 cc _ _ 49 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 48 fixed _ _ 50 as as ADP IN _ 48 fixed _ _ 51 foes foe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 52 without without ADP IN _ 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | we | more | | | time | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 2 | **make** | past | emperor | emperor's peace | | | | with the emperor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product | | 3 | **send** | past · passive | | the next event in emperor's history | | | | for the palace | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | | the emperor advice | | | | within foes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | | 5 | **guard** | to-infinitive | | the emperor advice *not said here* | Rome | | | from foes | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent rome=Beneficiary from foe=Theme | | 6 | **pacify** | | emperor | | | | | | nom peace «state 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/70/) - ↑ back to [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/)