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title: So the two parted, and Sigurd prepared for the journey, and went to… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the two parted, and Sigurd prepared for the journey, and went to where his father had directed him. Who acts: two, Sigurd, father. 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 6

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So the two parted, and Sigurd prepared for the journey, and went to where his father had directed him.

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**Who acts:** two, Sigurd, father · **What happens:** part, prepare, go, direct · **To what, where:** Sigurd

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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: who acts (two, Sigurd, father), 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:pg640:47:6
# text = So the two parted, and Sigurd prepared for the journey, and went to where his father had directed him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	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	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **part** | past | the two |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **prepare** | past | Sigurd |  |  |  |  | for the journey | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for journey=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **go** | past | the two *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **direct** | past · perfect | Sigurd's father | Sigurd |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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