--- title: He had roamed round the world for a whole year, and his horse had di… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He had roamed round the world for a whole year, and his horse had died of exhaustion, while he himself had suffered much from want and misery, but still he had come on no trace of her he was in search of. Who acts: Prince, horse. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/24/) [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 Flower Queen’s Daughter(23)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/) / 24 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 24 He had roamed round the world for a whole year, and his horse had died of exhaustion, while he himself had suffered much from want and misery, but still he had come on no trace of her he was in search of. **Who acts:** Prince, horse · **What happens:** roam, die, suffer, come, be · **To what, where:** world, horse, want, trace This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, horse), 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:pg640:34:24 # text = He had roamed round the world for a whole year, and his horse had died of exhaustion, while he himself had suffered much from want and misery, but still he had come on no trace of her he was in search of. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 roamed roam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 round round ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 exhaustion exhaustion NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 suffered suffer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 25 much much ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 want want NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 misery misery NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 trace trace NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roam** | past · perfect | Prince | | | the world | year | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round world=Trajectory | | 2 | **die** | past · perfect | Prince's horse | | | | | of exhaustion | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of exhaustion=Causer | | 3 | **suffer** | past · perfect · passive | | horse | | want and misery | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | past · perfect | horse | | | no trace | still | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trace=Location | | 5 | **is** | past | horse | | | | | of fairy's search | tree rules | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/25/) - ↑ back to [The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/)