--- title: Wanderers, travellers, shipwrecked men, merchants, and wives stolen… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Wanderers, travellers, shipwrecked men, merchants, and wives stolen from alien tribes have diffused the stories; gipsies and Jews have passed them about; Roman soldiers of many different races, moved here and there about the Empire, have trafficked in them. Who acts: Jews, Roman soldiers. A sentence --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/24/) [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 Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/) / 24 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 24 Wanderers, travellers, shipwrecked men, merchants, and wives stolen from alien tribes have diffused the stories; gipsies and Jews have passed them about; Roman soldiers of many different races, moved here and there about the Empire, have trafficked in them. **Who acts:** Jews, Roman soldiers · **What happens:** shipwreck, steal, diffuse, pass, move, traffic · **To what, where:** wives, alien tribes, stories, Wanderers This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jews, Roman soldiers), 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:pg3027:1:24 # text = Wanderers, travellers, shipwrecked men, merchants, and wives stolen from alien tribes have diffused the stories; gipsies and Jews have passed them about; Roman soldiers of many different races, moved here and there about the Empire, have trafficked in them. 1 Wanderers wanderer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 shipwrecked shipwreck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 alien alien ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 tribes tribe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 diffused diffuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 gipsies gipsy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 Jews Jew PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 races race NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 37 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 conj _ _ 40 about about ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 44 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 trafficked traffic VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shipwreck** | participle | | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **steal** | participle | | wives *not said here* | | alien tribes | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **diffuse** | present · perfect · passive | | wives | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pass** | present · perfect | Jews | stories *= story* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | | 5 | **move** | past | Roman soldiers of many different races | Wanderers and travellers and shipwrecked men and merchants *not said here* | | here | | about the Empire | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wanderer=Theme | | 6 | **traffic** | present · perfect · passive | | Wanderers and travellers and shipwrecked men and merchants | | | | in stories *= story* | tree rules | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/25/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/)