--- title: He went with them till they came to a place where three roads met, a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He went with them till they came to a place where three roads met, and there each of them took his own way, and the father bade them farewell and returned to his own home again. Who acts: husbandman, sons, three roads, each. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husbandman, sons, three roads, each), 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:pg540:9:4 # text = He went with them till they came to a place where three roads met, and there each of them took his own way, and the father bade them farewell and returned to his own home again. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 till till SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 12 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 farewell farewell ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 again again ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | husbandman | | | | | with sons *= son* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | | 2 | **come** | past | sons *= son* | | | a place | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **meet** | past | three roads | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | past | each | husbandman's own way | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 5 | **bade** | past | the father | sons *= son* | | | | farewell *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **return** | past | the father *not said here* | | | | again | to husbandman's own home *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/5/) - ↑ back to [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/)