--- title: He made the youth follow him through dark secret passages, undergrou… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He made the youth follow him through dark secret passages, underground vaults, and grey rocks till at last they came to an open field, which looked as if it belonged to a more beautiful world than ours. Who acts: beard, youth, grey rocks, rocks. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/55/45/) [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 Three Musicians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/55/) / 45 # The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 45 He made the youth follow him through dark secret passages, underground vaults, and grey rocks till at last they came to an open field, which looked as if it belonged to a more beautiful world than ours. **Who acts:** beard, youth, grey rocks, rocks, open field, field · **What happens:** make, follow, till, come, look, belong · **To what, where:** beard, dark secret passages, last, open field This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beard, youth, grey rocks, rocks), 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:pg7277:55:45 # text = He made the youth follow him through dark secret passages, underground vaults, and grey rocks till at last they came to an open field, which looked as if it belonged to a more beautiful world than ours. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 youth youth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 passages passage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 underground underground ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 vaults vault NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 till till VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 37 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | beard | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** | present | the youth | beard | | dark secret passages and underground vaults | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through passage=Trajectory | | 3 | **till** | present | grey rocks | | | last | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | past | rocks *= rock* | | | a open field | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **look** | past | a open field | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **belong** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | field | | | | | to a beautiful world; than ours | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/55/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/55/46/) - ↑ back to [The Three Musicians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/55/)