--- title: So the merchant set out and reached the town as quickly as possible,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So the merchant set out and reached the town as quickly as possible, but only to find that his former companions, believing him to be dead, had divided between them the goods which the ship had brought; and after six months of trouble and expense he found himself as poor as when he started, having b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/27/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Beauty and the Beast, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/) / 27 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 27 So the merchant set out and reached the town as quickly as possible, but only to find that his former companions, believing him to be dead, had divided between them the goods which the ship had brought; and after six months of trouble and expense he found himself as poor as when he started, having been able to recover only just enough to pay the cost of his journey. **Who acts:** merchant, former companions · **What happens:** set out, reach, find, believe, be, divide · **To what, where:** town, merchant, goods, cost, journey · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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 (merchant, former companions), 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:pg503:14:27 # text = So the merchant set out and reached the town as quickly as possible, but only to find that his former companions, believing him to be dead, had divided between them the goods which the ship had brought; and after six months of trouble and expense he found himself as poor as when he started, having been able to recover only just enough to pay the cost of his journey. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 28 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 divided divide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 32 between between ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 31 obj _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 after after ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obl:unmarked _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 expense expense NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 52 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 51 obj _ _ 53 as as ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 54 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 xcomp _ _ 55 as as SCONJ IN _ 58 mark _ _ 56 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 58 advmod _ _ 57 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 58 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 60 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 62 nsubj _ _ 61 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 62 cop _ _ 62 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 ccomp _ _ 63 to to PART TO _ 64 mark _ _ 64 recover recover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 xcomp _ _ 65 only only ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 66 just just ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 67 enough enough ADV RB _ 64 advmod _ _ 68 to to PART TO _ 69 mark _ _ 69 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 64 advcl _ _ 70 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 71 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 obj _ _ 72 of of ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 74 nmod:poss _ _ 74 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set out** | past | the merchant | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **reach** | past | the merchant *not said here* | the town | | | | quickly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | the merchant *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **believe** | gerund | merchant's former companions | merchant | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **divide** | past · perfect | the merchant *not said here* | the goods | | | | between companions *= companion* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme | | 7 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | | the goods | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **find** | past | merchant | merchant | | | month | of trouble and expense; poor *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 9 | **start** | past | merchant | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 10 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **is** | participle | | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 12 | **recover** | to-infinitive | | | | | | enough *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 13 | **pay** | to-infinitive | | the cost of merchant's journey | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Asset | | 14 | **cost** | | | merchant's journey | | | | | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient | | 15 | **journey** | | merchant | | | | | | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/28/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/)