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title: The emperor did as Virgilius advised, but thieves and murderers laug… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The emperor did as Virgilius advised, but thieves and murderers laughed at the horse, and went about their misdeeds as usual. Who acts: emperor, Virgilius, thieves. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 93

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The emperor did as Virgilius advised, but thieves and murderers laughed at the horse, and went about their misdeeds as usual.

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**Who acts:** emperor, Virgilius, thieves · **What happens:** do, advise, laugh, go

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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 (emperor, Virgilius, thieves), 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:pg641:43:93
# text = The emperor did as Virgilius advised, but thieves and murderers laughed at the horse, and went about their misdeeds as usual.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	murderers	murderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	misdeeds	misdeed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the emperor |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | Virgilius |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | thieves and murderers |  |  |  |  | at the horse | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | thieves and murderers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about horses's misdeeds; as usual | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about misdeed=Location |

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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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