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title: But at the last stroke of the bell the horse set off at full gallop… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But at the last stroke of the bell the horse set off at full gallop through the streets of Rome, and by daylight men counted over two hundred corpses that it had trodden down. Who acts: horse, daylight men. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer, with its depend
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 94

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But at the last stroke of the bell the horse set off at full gallop through the streets of Rome, and by daylight men counted over two hundred corpses that it had trodden down.

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**Who acts:** horse, daylight men · **What happens:** set off, count, tread down, stroke · **To what, where:** last stroke, counted hundred corpses, bell

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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 (horse, daylight men), 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:pg641:43:94
# text = But at the last stroke of the bell the horse set off at full gallop through the streets of Rome, and by daylight men counted over two hundred corpses that it had trodden down.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gallop	gallop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
26	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
27	over	over	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | past | the horse |  |  | the last stroke of the bell |  | at full gallop; through the streets of Rome | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **count** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tread down** | past · perfect · passive | daylight men | counted hundred corpses |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location subject=Theme |
| 4 | **stroke** |  |  | the bell |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «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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