--- title: He gave out that he had undertaken a secret mission to a neighbourin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He gave out that he had undertaken a secret mission to a neighbouring state, and embarked on board a vessel, the winds carrying him straight to the island where the Fairy had told him he would find the real Prince. Who acts: Rosimond, winds, Fairy. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/72/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Enchanted Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/) / 72 # The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 72 He gave out that he had undertaken a secret mission to a neighbouring state, and embarked on board a vessel, the winds carrying him straight to the island where the Fairy had told him he would find the real Prince. **Who acts:** Rosimond, winds, Fairy · **What happens:** give out, undertake, neighbour, embark, carry, tell · **To what, where:** secret mission, vessel, Rosimond, island, real Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosimond, winds, Fairy), 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:pg7277:19:72 # text = He gave out that he had undertaken a secret mission to a neighbouring state, and embarked on board a vessel, the winds carrying him straight to the island where the Fairy had told him he would find the real Prince. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 undertaken undertake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 mission mission NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 neighbouring neighbour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 embarked embark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 board board ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 25 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 straight straight ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give out** | past | Rosimond | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **undertake** | past · perfect | Rosimond | a secret mission | | | | to a neighbouring state | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mission=Eventuality | | 3 | **neighbour** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **embark** | participle | Rosimond *not said here* | | | a vessel | | | tree rules | | 5 | **carry** | gerund | the winds *not said here* | Rosimond | | the island | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to island=Destination | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the Fairy | | Rosimond | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **find** | would | Rosimond | the real Prince | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/73/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/)