--- title: In a few days they left the kingdom and rode on to another, where th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In a few days they left the kingdom and rode on to another, where they thought they would stop through the remainder of the winter, for Geirald liked to be comfortable, and did not care about travelling through ice and snow. Who acts: people, Geirald. 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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 (people, Geirald), 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:pg3282:12:105 # text = In a few days they left the kingdom and rode on to another, where they thought they would stop through the remainder of the winter, for Geirald liked to be comfortable, and did not care about travelling through ice and snow. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 on on ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 remainder remainder NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 Geirald Geirald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 care care VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 39 about about SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 travelling travel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 41 through through ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | people | the kingdom | | | day | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | | 2 | **ride on** | past | people *not said here* | | | another | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to another=Trajectory | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | would | people | | | the remainder of the winter | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **like** | past | Geirald | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Geirald *not said here* | | | | | comfortable *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **travel** | gerund | | | | ice and snow | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through ice=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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/12/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/12/106/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/12/)