--- title: Calling his beasts round him, he set out and wandered through the wo… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Calling his beasts round him, he set out and wandered through the woods. Who acts: master. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/124/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/) / 124 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 124 Calling his beasts round him, he set out and wandered through the woods. **Who acts:** master · **What happens:** call, set out, wander · **To what, where:** beasts, woods · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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:pg641:5:124 # text = Calling his beasts round him, he set out and wandered through the woods. 1 Calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 round round ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | gerund | master *not said here* | master's beasts | | | | round master | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient | | 2 | **set out** | past | master | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wander** | past | master *not said here* | | | the woods | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/123/) - next →: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/125/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)