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title: On the roof of the Capitol, which was the most famous public buildin… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the roof of the Capitol, which was the most famous public building in the city, he set up statues representing the gods worshipped by every nation subject to Rome, and in the middle stood the god of Rome herself. Who acts: Capitol, Virgilius, statues. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 71

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On the roof of the Capitol, which was the most famous public building in the city, he set up statues representing the gods worshipped by every nation subject to Rome, and in the middle stood the god of Rome herself.

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**Who acts:** Capitol, Virgilius, statues · **What happens:** be, set up, represent, worshipp, stand · **To what, where:** famous public building, city, statues, roof, gods, god

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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 (Capitol, Virgilius, statues), 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:pg641:43:71
# text = On the roof of the Capitol, which was the most famous public building in the city, he set up statues representing the gods worshipped by every nation subject to Rome, and in the middle stood the god of Rome herself.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Capitol	Capitol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	worshipped	worshipp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
29	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
38	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Capitol | the famous public building |  | the city |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set up** | past | Virgilius | statues |  | the roof of the Capitol |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent statue=Theme on roof=Destination |
| 3 | **represent** | gerund | statues *not said here* | the gods |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot god=Theme |
| 4 | **worshipp** | participle |  | the gods *not said here* |  |  |  | by every nation subject to Rome | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | past | Virgilius *not said here* | the god of Rome |  | the middle |  | Rome *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent god=Theme in middle=Destination |

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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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