--- title: Virgilius, like the rest, listened to the stories that were told of… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Virgilius, like the rest, listened to the stories that were told of her, and fell so violently in love with all he heard that he built a bridge in the air, which stretched all the way between Rome and Babylon. Who acts: Virgilius, bridge. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgili --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/99/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/) / 99 # The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 99 Virgilius, like the rest, listened to the stories that were told of her, and fell so violently in love with all he heard that he built a bridge in the air, which stretched all the way between Rome and Babylon. **Who acts:** Virgilius, bridge · **What happens:** listen, tell, fall, hear, build, stretch · **To what, where:** rest, stories, love, bridge, air, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Virgilius, bridge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:43:99 # text = Virgilius, like the rest, listened to the stories that were told of her, and fell so violently in love with all he heard that he built a bridge in the air, which stretched all the way between Rome and Babylon. 1 Virgilius Virgilius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 listened listen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 violently violently ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 obl _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 38 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 40 det:predet _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 between between ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | participle | | the rest *not said here* | | | | to the stories | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | the stories | | | | of Babylon | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **fall** | past | Virgilius | | | love | | violently *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 4 | **hear** | past | Virgilius | | | | | with all | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **build** | past | Virgilius | a bridge | | the air | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Product | | 6 | **stretch** | past | a bridge | all way | | | | between Rome and Babylon | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/100/) - ↑ back to [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/)