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title: He thereupon settled that they should travel, and that the one who c… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: He thereupon settled that they should travel, and that the one who could obtain the most splendid carpet should ascend the throne when he died. Who acts: King, sons, one. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 3

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He thereupon settled that they should travel, and that the one who could obtain the most splendid carpet should ascend the throne when he died.

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**Who acts:** King, sons, one · **What happens:** settle, travel, obtain, ascend, die · **To what, where:** splendid carpet, throne

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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 (King, sons, one), 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:pg11027:10:3
# text = He thereupon settled that they should travel, and that the one who could obtain the most splendid carpet should ascend the throne when he died.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	ascend	ascend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past | King |  |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **travel** | should | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **obtain** | could | the one | the splendid carpet |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=Theme |
| 4 | **ascend** | should | the one | the throne |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throne=Trajectory |
| 5 | **die** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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