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title: Having travelled from land to land in this fashion without finding a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 96

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Having travelled from land to land in this fashion without finding anything to rivet his attention, it occurred to him to take the form of an eagle, and in this shape he flew across many countries and arrived at length in a new and lovely spot, where the air seemed filled with the scent of jessamine and orange flowers with which the ground was thickly planted.

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**Who acts:** anything, attention, godmother, ground · **What happens:** travell, find, rivet, occur, take, fly · **To what, where:** land, anything, attention, godmother, form, shape

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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 (anything, attention, godmother, ground), 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:pg640:19:96
# text = Having travelled from land to land in this fashion without finding anything to rivet his attention, it occurred to him to take the form of an eagle, and in this shape he flew across many countries and arrived at length in a new and lovely spot, where the air seemed filled with the scent of jessamine and orange flowers with which the ground was thickly planted.
1	Having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux	_	_
2	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	rivet	rivet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
36	across	across	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
45	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	_
48	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	53	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	jessamine	jessamine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
61	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	conj	_	_
63	with	with	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	68	obl	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nsubj	_	_
67	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
68	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	conj	_	_
69	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	68	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travell** | gerund · perfect |  |  |  | land |  | to land; in this fashion | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | gerund |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent anything=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **rivet** | to-infinitive | anything *not said here* | godmother's attention |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 4 | **occur** | past | attention |  | godmother |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | attention *not said here* | the form of a eagle |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 6 | **fly** | past | godmother |  |  | this shape |  | across many countries | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in shape=Location |
| 7 | **arrive** | past | godmother *not said here* |  |  | length |  | in a new spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **fill** | past · passive | godmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the scent of jessamine and orange flowers | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with scent=Instrument |
| 9 | **is** | past | the ground |  |  |  |  | with orange flowers; thickly *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **plant** | participle | the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **attend** |  | godmother |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 12 | **form** |  |  | a eagle |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 13 | **scent** |  |  | jessamine and orange flowers |  |  |  |  | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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