--- title: For some time he had set his heart on travelling into foreign countr… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For some time he had set his heart on travelling into foreign countries, and after he had been talking for a little while to Rosald, he asked if his new friend would be his companion on his journey. Who acts: man, new friend. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/12/74/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/12/) / 74 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 74 For some time he had set his heart on travelling into foreign countries, and after he had been talking for a little while to Rosald, he asked if his new friend would be his companion on his journey. **Who acts:** man, new friend · **What happens:** set, travel, talk, ask, be, journey · **To what, where:** man, foreign countries, companion, journey This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, new friend), 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:pg3282:12:74 # text = For some time he had set his heart on travelling into foreign countries, and after he had been talking for a little while to Rosald, he asked if his new friend would be his companion on his journey. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 on on SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 travelling travel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 16 after after SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 aux _ _ 20 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Rosald Rosald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 ccomp _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past · perfect · passive | | man | | | time | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination | | 2 | **travel** | gerund | | | | foreign countries | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination | | 3 | **talk** | past · perfect · progressive | man | | | | while | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | man | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | man's new friend | man's companion | | man's journey | | | tree rules | | 6 | **journey** | | man | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/12/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/12/75/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/12/)