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title: And the senators gave leave, and the messengers hired boats and men,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the senators gave leave, and the messengers hired boats and men, and let down ropes with hooks, and at length drew up the pot of gold, some of which they gave as presents to the senators. Who acts: senators, messengers, some. 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 81

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And the senators gave leave, and the messengers hired boats and men, and let down ropes with hooks, and at length drew up the pot of gold, some of which they gave as presents to the senators.

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**Who acts:** senators, messengers, some · **What happens:** give, hire, let down, draw up · **To what, where:** leave, boats, ropes, pot, length, senators

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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 (senators, messengers, some), 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:pg641:43:81
# text = And the senators gave leave, and the messengers hired boats and men, and let down ropes with hooks, and at length drew up the pot of gold, some of which they gave as presents to the senators.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	senators	senator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	senators	senator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the senators | leave |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 2 | **hire** | past | the messengers | boats and men |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 3 | **let down** | infinitive | the senators *not said here* | ropes |  |  |  | with hooks | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 4 | **draw up** | past |  | the pot of gold |  | length |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past | some |  | the senators |  |  | as presents | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to senator=Recipient |

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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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