--- title: Another day he had wandered farther than usual, and came close to a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Another day he had wandered farther than usual, and came close to a farmyard; the place pleased the Prince, and as there was plenty of good grass for the horses he determined to spend the day there. Who acts: Iwanich. 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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 (Iwanich), 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:pg640:31:71 # text = Another day he had wandered farther than usual, and came close to a farmyard; the place pleased the Prince, and as there was plenty of good grass for the horses he determined to spend the day there. 1 Another another DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 wandered wander VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 farmyard farmyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 27 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wander** | past · perfect | Iwanich | | | | day | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | | | | | | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | | for the horses | tree rules | | 4 | **determine** | past | Iwanich | the horses *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **spend** | to-infinitive | Iwanich *not said here* | | | there | day | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/72/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/)