--- title: Before they had gone very far, a handsome young man, splendidly dres… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Before they had gone very far, a handsome young man, splendidly dressed, rode up and stopped to ask the way to the castle where the King was staying; and when he found that they too were going thither, he got off his horse and walked beside them along the road. Who acts: geese, King. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geese, King), 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:pg14241:20:102 # text = Before they had gone very far, a handsome young man, splendidly dressed, rode up and stopped to ask the way to the castle where the King was staying; and when he found that they too were going thither, he got off his horse and walked beside them along the road. 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 splendidly splendidly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 too too ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 ccomp _ _ 42 thither thither ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 46 off off ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 51 beside beside ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obl _ _ 53 along along ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | geese *= goose* | a handsome young man | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **dress** | participle | geese *= goose* *not said here* | | | | | splendidly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ride up** | past | geese *= goose* *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stop** | past | geese *= goose* *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | geese *= goose* *not said here* | the way | | | | to the castle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | | 6 | **stay** | past · progressive | the King | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **find** | past | king | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **go** | past · progressive | geese *= goose* | | | | | thither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **get off** | past | king | king's horse | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | | 10 | **walk** | past | king *not said here* | | | | | beside geese *= goose*; along the road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Trajectory | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/101/) - next →: [More English Fairy Tales, pa…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/21/1/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/)