--- title: A few days later the diviners again appeared before the senate, and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: A few days later the diviners again appeared before the senate, and said, ‘Oh, noble lords, grant us leave to seek out another treasure, which has been revealed to us in a dream as lying under the bridge over the river.’ Who acts: diviners. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/80/) [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/) / 80 # The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 80 A few days later the diviners again appeared before the senate, and said, ‘Oh, noble lords, grant us leave to seek out another treasure, which has been revealed to us in a dream as lying under the bridge over the river.’ **Who acts:** diviners · **What happens:** appear, say, grant, leave, seek out, reveal · **To what, where:** senate, noble lords, us, treasure, dream, bridge · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (diviners), 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:pg641:43:80 # text = A few days later the diviners again appeared before the senate, and said, ‘Oh, noble lords, grant us leave to seek out another treasure, which has been revealed to us in a dream as lying under the bridge over the river.’ 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 diviners diviner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 senate senate NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 20 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 revealed reveal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl:relcl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 42 under under ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 over over ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the diviners | | | the senate | again | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before senate=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | noble lords | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grant** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **seek out** | to-infinitive | | another treasure | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | | 6 | **reveal** | present · perfect · passive | | another treasure | us | a dream | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to we=Recipient | | 7 | **lie** | gerund | | | | the bridge | | over the river | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bridge=Location | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/81/) - ↑ back to [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/)