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title: "Well," agreed the father, "the one who brings me the most magnifice… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well," agreed the father, "the one who brings me the most magnificent ring shall succeed to my throne," and once more he took his sons outside the Palace. Who acts: father, one, Dummling. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers, with its dependency tree
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 27

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"Well," agreed the father, "the one who brings me the most magnificent ring shall succeed to my throne," and once more he took his sons outside the Palace.

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**Who acts:** father, one, Dummling · **What happens:** agree, bring, succeed, take · **To what, where:** magnificent ring, father, sons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, one, Dummling), 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:pg11027:10:27
# text = "Well," agreed the father, "the one who brings me the most magnificent ring shall succeed to my throne," and once more he took his sons outside the Palace.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the father |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | the one | the magnificent ring | the father *= father* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination ring=Theme |
| 3 | **succeed** *in a quote* | shall | the one |  |  |  |  | to my throne | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | Dummling |  | Dummling's sons |  |  | outside the Palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination |

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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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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