--- title: They soon reached the land which Sigurd was to rule over, and found… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They soon reached the land which Sigurd was to rule over, and found all the people sorrowful for the old King’s death, but they became glad when they got Sigurd back to the Court, and made him King over them. Who acts: sailors, Sigurd, old King. 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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 (sailors, Sigurd, old King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:3405`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:47:28 # text = They soon reached the land which Sigurd was to rule over, and found all the people sorrowful for the old King’s death, but they became glad when they got Sigurd back to the Court, and made him King over them. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obl _ _ 7 Sigurd Sigurd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 rule rule VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 sorrowful sorrowful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 Sigurd Sigurd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 xcomp _ _ 43 over over ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | sailors *= sailor* | the land | | | | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 2 | **be** | past | Sigurd | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **rule** | to-infinitive | Sigurd *not said here* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | past | sailors *= sailor* *not said here* | all people | | | | sorrowful *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 5 | **become** | past | sailors *= sailor* | | | | | glad *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **get** | past | sailors *= sailor* | Sigurd | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sigurd=Stimulus | | 7 | **make** | past | sailors *= sailor* *not said here* | Sigurd | | | | over sailors *= sailor* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | | 8 | **die** | | the old King | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/29/) - ↑ back to [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/)