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title: His property had dwindled away by degrees, and he and his daughters… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: His property had dwindled away by degrees, and he and his daughters would have to starve, for he was so poor that he had not the money to pay the host, and would therefore be put into prison. Who acts: degrees, man. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dep
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 82

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His property had dwindled away by degrees, and he and his daughters would have to starve, for he was so poor that he had not the money to pay the host, and would therefore be put into prison.

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**Who acts:** degrees, man · **What happens:** dwindle away, have, starve, be, pay, put · **To what, where:** property, money, host, prison

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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 (degrees, man), 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:pg11027:15:82
# text = His property had dwindled away by degrees, and he and his daughters would have to starve, for he was so poor that he had not the money to pay the host, and would therefore be put into prison.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dwindled	dwindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwindle away** | past · perfect · passive | degrees | man's property |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient subject=Extent |
| 2 | **have** | would | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **starve** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | man | the money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the host |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Asset |
| 7 | **put** | would · passive | degrees *not said here* |  |  | prison |  | therefore *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |

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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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