--- title: So he set out, accompanied by the Prime Minister and a guard of arch… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So he set out, accompanied by the Prime Minister and a guard of archers, and arrived just in time to find the old man and the Princess finishing his dinner. Who acts: Minister, Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/249/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/) / 249 # The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 249 So he set out, accompanied by the Prime Minister and a guard of archers, and arrived just in time to find the old man and the Princess finishing his dinner. **Who acts:** Minister, Princess · **What happens:** set out, accompany, arrive, find, finish · **To what, where:** old man, dinner This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minister, Princess), 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:pg540:11:249 # text = So he set out, accompanied by the Prime Minister and a guard of archers, and arrived just in time to find the old man and the Princess finishing his dinner. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 accompanied accompany VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Prime Prime PROPN NNP _ 10 compound _ _ 10 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 archers archer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 finishing finish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set out** | past | Minister | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **accompany** | participle | Minister *not said here* | | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **arrive** | past | Minister *not said here* | | | | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | Minister *not said here* | the old man and the Princess | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | | 5 | **finish** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | Minister's dinner | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dinner=Eventuality | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 248](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/248/) - next →: [sentence 250](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/250/) - ↑ back to [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/)