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title: A short time afterward three wagons laden with gold and precious sto… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: A short time afterward three wagons laden with gold and precious stones came to the King's palace for his youngest Son. Who acts: three wagons. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 59

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A short time afterward three wagons laden with gold and precious stones came to the King's palace for his youngest Son.

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**Who acts:** three wagons · **What happens:** lade, come · **To what, where:** three wagons, palace

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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 (three wagons), 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:pg11027:17:59
# text = A short time afterward three wagons laden with gold and precious stones came to the King's palace for his youngest Son.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	wagons	wagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lade** | participle |  | three wagons *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold and precious stones | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | three wagons |  |  | the King's palace for King's youngest Son | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |

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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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