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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 32

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When the Dwarf saw the sword and bread which he had brought away he declared he had done well, for with the sword he could destroy whole armies--but the bread was worth nothing.

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**Who acts:** Dwarf, Prince, bread · **What happens:** see, bring away, declare, do, destroy, be · **To what, where:** sword, whole armies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf, Prince, bread), 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:pg11027:17:32
# text = When the Dwarf saw the sword and bread which he had brought away he declared he had done well, for with the sword he could destroy whole armies--but the bread was worth nothing.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Dwarf | the sword and bread |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bring away** | past · perfect · passive |  | the sword and bread |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | Prince |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **destroy** | could | Prince | whole armies |  |  |  | for the sword | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | past | the bread |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | 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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