--- title: He therefore resolved to travel for change, and by means of his magi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He therefore resolved to travel for change, and by means of his magic art was able to visit every country he came to see under different shapes, returning every few weeks to the place where he had left a few followers. Who acts: godmother, magic art. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/95/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/) / 95 # The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 95 He therefore resolved to travel for change, and by means of his magic art was able to visit every country he came to see under different shapes, returning every few weeks to the place where he had left a few followers. **Who acts:** godmother, magic art · **What happens:** resolve, travel, mean, be, visit, come · **To what, where:** country, different shapes, few followers · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (godmother, magic art), 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:pg640:19:95 # text = He therefore resolved to travel for change, and by means of his magic art was able to visit every country he came to see under different shapes, returning every few weeks to the place where he had left a few followers. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 resolved resolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 of of SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 under under ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 returning return VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 32 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 40 advmod _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 followers follower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **resolve** | past | godmother | | | | | therefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **travel** | to-infinitive | godmother *not said here* | | | | | for change | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | godmother's magic art | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **visit** | to-infinitive | godmother's magic art *not said here* | every country | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Co-Agent | | 6 | **come** | past | godmother | every country *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | godmother *not said here* | | | different shapes | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **return** | gerund | godmother *not said here* | | | | week | to the place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | | 9 | **leave** | past · perfect | godmother | a few followers | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent follower=Theme | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/96/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/)