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title: Dummling was there before them with his valuable ring, and immediate… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Dummling was there before them with his valuable ring, and immediately upon his showing it, the father declared that in justice the kingdom should be his. Who acts: Dummling, father, kingdom. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers, with its dependency t
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 33

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Dummling was there before them with his valuable ring, and immediately upon his showing it, the father declared that in justice the kingdom should be his.

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**Who acts:** Dummling, father, kingdom · **What happens:** be, show, declare · **To what, where:** ring, justice, Dummling

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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 (Dummling, father, kingdom), 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:pg11027:10:33
# text = Dummling was there before them with his valuable ring, and immediately upon his showing it, the father declared that in justice the kingdom should be his.
1	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dummling |  |  |  | before brothers *= brother* | with Dummling's valuable ring; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | Dummling | ring |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the father | justice |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | should | the kingdom *not said here* | Dummling |  |  |  |  | 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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