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title: Bearskin took a ring off his finger, broke it in two, and, giving th… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Bearskin took a ring off his finger, broke it in two, and, giving the youngest daughter one half, he kept the other for himself. Who acts: Bearskin. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 93

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Bearskin took a ring off his finger, broke it in two, and, giving the youngest daughter one half, he kept the other for himself.

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**Who acts:** Bearskin · **What happens:** take, break, give, keep · **To what, where:** ring, finger, two, one half, youngest daughter, other

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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 (Bearskin), 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:pg11027:15:93
# text = Bearskin took a ring off his finger, broke it in two, and, giving the youngest daughter one half, he kept the other for himself.
1	Bearskin	Bearskin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Bearskin | a ring |  | BEARSKIN's finger |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme off finger=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **break** | past | Bearskin *not said here* | ring |  | two |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | BEARSKIN *not said here* | one half | the youngest daughter |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient half=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | past | BEARSKIN | the other |  |  |  | for BEARSKIN | 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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