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title: The rest of the thieves--and there were still many remaining--instea… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The rest of the thieves--and there were still many remaining--instead of being frightened into honesty, as Virgilius had hoped, prepared rope ladders with hooks to them, and when they heard the sound of the horse’s hoofs they stuck their ladders into the walls, and climbed up above the reach of the 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 95

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The rest of the thieves--and there were still many remaining--instead of being frightened into honesty, as Virgilius had hoped, prepared rope ladders with hooks to them, and when they heard the sound of the horse’s hoofs they stuck their ladders into the walls, and climbed up above the reach of the horse and its rider.

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**Who acts:** rest, horses · **What happens:** remain, frighten, hope, hear, stick, climb up · **To what, where:** honesty, Virgilius, thieves, sound, ladders, walls

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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 (rest, horses), 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:pg641:43:95
# text = The rest of the thieves--and there were still many remaining--instead of being frightened into honesty, as Virgilius had hoped, prepared rope ladders with hooks to them, and when they heard the sound of the horse’s hoofs they stuck their ladders into the walls, and climbed up above the reach of the horse and its rider.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
12	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hoped	hope	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
55	up	up	ADP	RP	_	54	compound:prt	_	_
56	above	above	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
63	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past · progressive | the rest of the thieves |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **frighten** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | honesty |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **hope** | past · perfect · passive |  | Virgilius | thieves *= thief* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | past | horses *= horse* | the sound of the horse's hoofs |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stick** | past | horses *= horse* | horses's ladders |  | the walls |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme into wall=Destination |
| 6 | **climb up** | past |  |  |  | the reach of the horse and rest's rider |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above reach=Trajectory |

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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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