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title: This effected, the Prince took back the bread and sword, and rode on… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: This effected, the Prince took back the bread and sword, and rode on farther with his Brothers, and by and by they came to two other provinces where also war and famine were destroying the people. Who acts: Prince, sword, war. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 40

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This effected, the Prince took back the bread and sword, and rode on farther with his Brothers, and by and by they came to two other provinces where also war and famine were destroying the people.

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**Who acts:** Prince, sword, war · **What happens:** affect, take back, ride, come, destroy · **To what, where:** This, bread, two other provinces, people

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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 (Prince, sword, war), 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:pg11027:17:40
# text = This effected, the Prince took back the bread and sword, and rode on farther with his Brothers, and by and by they came to two other provinces where also war and famine were destroying the people.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	effected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	acl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | participle · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take back** | past | the Prince | the bread and sword |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
| 3 | **ride** | past | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | sword |  |  | two other provinces |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to province=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **destroy** | past · progressive | war and famine | the people |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

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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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