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title: The Soldier reflected for awhile on his great necessities, and, reme… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Soldier reflected for awhile on his great necessities, and, remembering how often he had braved death, he at length consented, and ventured to accept the offer. Who acts: Soldier. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 68

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The Soldier reflected for awhile on his great necessities, and, remembering how often he had braved death, he at length consented, and ventured to accept the offer.

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**Who acts:** Soldier · **What happens:** reflect, remember, brave, consent, venture, accept · **To what, where:** braved death, soldier, offer

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), 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:pg11027:15:68
# text = The Soldier reflected for awhile on his great necessities, and, remembering how often he had braved death, he at length consented, and ventured to accept the offer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	3	obl	_	_
6	on	on	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	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	necessities	necessity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	braved	brave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | past | the Soldier |  |  |  |  | on soldier's great necessities | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on necessity=Topic |
| 2 | **remember** | gerund | the Soldier *not said here* | braved death |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent death=Theme |
| 3 | **brave** | past · perfect | soldier |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **consent** | participle · passive |  | soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **venture** | past | the Soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **accept** | to-infinitive | the Soldier *not said here* | the offer |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme |

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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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