--- title: On reaching a town, the first thing she did was to order three pairs… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On reaching a town, the first thing she did was to order three pairs of iron sandals and a steel staff, and having made these preparations for her journey, she set out in search of her husband. Who acts: first thing, fate. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/114/) [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/) / [The Enchanted Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/) / 114 # The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 114 On reaching a town, the first thing she did was to order three pairs of iron sandals and a steel staff, and having made these preparations for her journey, she set out in search of her husband. **Who acts:** first thing, fate · **What happens:** reach, do, order, make, set out, journey · **To what, where:** town, first thing, three pairs, preparations, search, husband This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first thing, fate), 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:pg540:12:114 # text = On reaching a town, the first thing she did was to order three pairs of iron sandals and a steel staff, and having made these preparations for her journey, she set out in search of her husband. 1 On on SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 order order VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 sandals sandal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 aux _ _ 26 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 parataxis _ _ 27 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 preparations preparation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | gerund | the first thing *not said here* | a town | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | fate | the first thing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 3 | **order** | past | the first thing | three pairs of iron sandals and a steel staff | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | | 4 | **make** | gerund · perfect | | this preparations | | | | for fate's journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for journey=Asset | | 5 | **set out** | past | fate | this preparations *not said here* | | search of fate's husband | | | tree rules | | 6 | **journey** | | fate | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **search** | | | fate's husband | | | | | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/115/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/)