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title: They were sent by the three Kings in token of gratitude for the swor… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: They were sent by the three Kings in token of gratitude for the sword which had defeated their enemies, and the bread which had nourished their people. Who acts: three Kings. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 60

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They were sent by the three Kings in token of gratitude for the sword which had defeated their enemies, and the bread which had nourished their people.

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**Who acts:** three Kings · **What happens:** send, defeat, nourish · **To what, where:** wagons, token, sword, bread

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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 Kings), 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:pg11027:17:60
# text = They were sent by the three Kings in token of gratitude for the sword which had defeated their enemies, and the bread which had nourished their people.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	nourished	nourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive | the three Kings | wagons *= wagon* |  | token of gratitude for the sword |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in token=Destination |
| 2 | **defeat** | past · perfect · passive |  | the sword |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **nourish** | past · perfect · passive |  | the bread |  |  |  |  | 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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