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title: Then he came back and went with his master, who said, ‘We two ought… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he came back and went with his master, who said, ‘We two ought to be able to travel through the wide world!’ Who acts: man, master. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 6

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Then he came back and went with his master, who said, ‘We two ought to be able to travel through the wide world!’

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**Who acts:** man, master · **What happens:** come back, go, say, be, travel · **To what, where:** wide world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:19:6
# text = Then he came back and went with his master, who said, ‘We two ought to be able to travel through the wide world!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | man |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with man's master | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with master=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man's master |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | ought | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **travel** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | the wide world |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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