--- title: So he left them, and took his wife and three children, and they jour… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So he left them, and took his wife and three children, and they journeyed on until they found a spot near to a clear stream, where they began to cut down trees, and to make ready their wigwam. Who acts: hunter, friends. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), pa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/104/) [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/) / [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/) / 104 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 104 So he left them, and took his wife and three children, and they journeyed on until they found a spot near to a clear stream, where they began to cut down trees, and to make ready their wigwam. **Who acts:** hunter, friends · **What happens:** leave, take, journey on, find, begin, cut down · **To what, where:** friends, wife, spot, trees, wigwam This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter, friends), 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:pg640:24:104 # text = So he left them, and took his wife and three children, and they journeyed on until they found a spot near to a clear stream, where they began to cut down trees, and to make ready their wigwam. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 journeyed journey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 until until SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 near near ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 down down ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 40 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 wigwam wigwam NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | hunter | friends *= friend* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | hunter *not said here* | | hunter's wife and three children | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | | 3 | **journey on** | past | friends *= friend* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **find** | past | friends *= friend* | a spot | | | | to a clear stream | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic | | 5 | **begin** | past | friends *= friend* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **cut down** | to-infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | trees | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | | friends's wigwam | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wigwam=Product | 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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/105/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/)