--- title: So they all travelled together till they arrived at a very ordinary-… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So they all travelled together till they arrived at a very ordinary-looking house, which Aveline pointed out as the castle of the White Demon, and told the king that he might put down his bundle in the courtyard. Who acts: men, Aveline, king. 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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 (men, Aveline, king), 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:pg5615:30:50 # text = So they all travelled together till they arrived at a very ordinary-looking house, which Aveline pointed out as the castle of the White Demon, and told the king that he might put down his bundle in the courtyard. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 4 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 together together ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 till till SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 18 Aveline Aveline PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 pointed point VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 White White ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Demon Demon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 bundle bundle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | past | men *= man* | | | | | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **arrive** | past | men *= man* | | | a looking house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **point out** | past | Aveline | a looking house | | | | as the castle of the White Demon | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | men *= man* *not said here* | | the king | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **put down** | might | king | king's bundle | | the courtyard | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme in courtyard=Destination | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/51/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/)