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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 68

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Soon afterward the second Prince also set out, and he, likewise, when he came to the golden road and his horse set its forefeet upon it, thought it would be a pity to travel upon it, so he turned aside to the right hand and went up.

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**Who acts:** kingdom, horse · **What happens:** set out, come, set, think, be, travel · **To what, where:** golden road, forefeet, pity, right hand · **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 (kingdom, horse), 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:pg11027:17:68
# text = Soon afterward the second Prince also set out, and he, likewise, when he came to the golden road and his horse set its forefeet upon it, thought it would be a pity to travel upon it, so he turned aside to the right hand and went up.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	afterward	afterward	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	forefeet	forefoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	ccomp	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
45	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
52	up	up	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past |  |  |  |  |  | afterward the second Prince; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | kingdom |  |  | the golden road |  | likewise *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **set** | past | kingdom's horse | horse's forefeet |  |  |  | upon person | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent forefoot=Theme upon it=Destination |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | would | horse | a pity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **travel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon person | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory |
| 7 | **turn** | past | kingdom |  |  | the right hand |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hand=Trajectory |
| 8 | **go up** | past | kingdom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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