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title: So the big box was brought, and out of it the toad handed him a ring… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So the big box was brought, and out of it the toad handed him a ring which was of so exquisite a workmanship that no goldsmith's could equal it. Who acts: toad, ring, goldsmith. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 30

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So the big box was brought, and out of it the toad handed him a ring which was of so exquisite a workmanship that no goldsmith's could equal it.

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**Who acts:** toad, ring, goldsmith · **What happens:** bring, hand, be, equal · **To what, where:** big box, ring, Dummling, box, exquisite workmanship

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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 (toad, ring, goldsmith), 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:pg11027:10:30
# text = So the big box was brought, and out of it the toad handed him a ring which was of so exquisite a workmanship that no goldsmith's could equal it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	equal	equal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | the big box |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hand** | past | the toad | a ring | Dummling | box |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination ring=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | a ring |  |  |  |  | of a exquisite workmanship | tree rules |
| 4 | **equal** | could | no goldsmith | a exquisite workmanship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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