---
title: ‘Whatever did ye come home for?’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Whatever did ye come home for?’ Who acts: Whatever. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/7/215/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Death of Koshchei the Deathless](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/7/) / 215

# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 215

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
‘Whatever did ye come home for?’

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Whatever · **What happens:** come

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whatever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg540:7:215
# text = ‘Whatever did ye come home for?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · do-support | Whatever |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/7/214/)
- next →: [sentence 216](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/7/216/)
- ↑ back to [The Death of Koshchei the Deathless](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/7/)