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title: Sigurd now prepared to return home with his wife and child, and went… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sigurd now prepared to return home with his wife and child, and went on board ship to go by sea. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 11

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Sigurd now prepared to return home with his wife and child, and went on board ship to go by sea.

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**What happens:** prepare, return, go · **To what, where:** board ship

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:47:11
# text = Sigurd now prepared to return home with his wife and child, and went on board ship to go by sea.
1	Sigurd	sigurd	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
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	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | participle |  |  |  |  | now | sigurd *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with Sigurd's wife and child; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  | board ship |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by sea | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sea=Location |

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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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