--- title: So they set out in the lord's grand coach, and travelled through the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So they set out in the lord's grand coach, and travelled through the forest till they came to Catskin's father's house, and put up at an inn near, where Catskin stopped, while her husband went to see if her father would own her. Who acts: brats, Catskin, husband, father. 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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 (brats, Catskin, husband, father), 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:pg14241:32:26 # text = So they set out in the lord's grand coach, and travelled through the forest till they came to Catskin's father's house, and put up at an inn near, where Catskin stopped, while her husband went to see if her father would own her. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 till till SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 Catskin Catskin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 near near ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 37 advmod _ _ 36 Catskin Catskin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 while while SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 if if SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 46 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 48 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 own own VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 ccomp _ _ 50 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set out** | past | brats *= brat* | | | the lord's grand coach | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **travel** | past | brats *= brat* *not said here* | | | the forest | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | | 3 | **come** | past | brats *= brat* | | | Catskin's father's house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **put up** | participle | brats *= brat* *not said here* | | | a inn | | near *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at inn=Destination | | 5 | **stop** | past | Catskin | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **go** | past | catskin's husband | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | catskin's husband *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **own** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | catskin's father | catskin | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/27/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/)