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title: ‘O, noble lords!’ said they, ‘last night in a vision we beheld twelv… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘O, noble lords!’ said they, ‘last night in a vision we beheld twelve casks of gold lying under the foundation stone of the Capitol, on which stands the statue of the Preservation of Rome. Who acts: noble lords, we, twelve casks. 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 83

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‘O, noble lords!’ said they, ‘last night in a vision we beheld twelve casks of gold lying under the foundation stone of the Capitol, on which stands the statue of the Preservation of Rome.

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**Who acts:** noble lords, we, twelve casks · **What happens:** say, behold, lie, stand, preserve · **To what, where:** twelve casks, foundation stone, statue, Rome · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (noble lords, we, twelve casks), 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:pg641:43:83
# text = ‘O, noble lords!’ said they, ‘last night in a vision we beheld twelve casks of gold lying under the foundation stone of the Capitol, on which stands the statue of the Preservation of Rome.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Capitol	Capitol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Preservation	preservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | noble lords |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **behold** | past | we | twelve casks of gold |  |  | night |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cask=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | twelve casks of gold *not said here* |  |  | the foundation stone of the Capitol |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stone=Location |
| 4 | **stand** | present |  | the statue of the Preservation of Rome |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=Stimulus |
| 5 | **preserve** |  |  | Rome |  |  |  |  | nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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