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title: "There is a sword for you to use to defend yourself on your journeyi… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "There is a sword for you to use to defend yourself on your journeyings." Who acts: sword, you, your. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 4

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"There is a sword for you to use to defend yourself on your journeyings."

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**Who acts:** sword, you, your · **What happens:** be, use, defend, journey · **To what, where:** yourself, journeyings

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, you, your), 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:pg11027:22:4
# text = "There is a sword for you to use to defend yourself on your journeyings."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	journeyings	journeying	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a sword |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **defend** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  | your journeyings |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **journey** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom journeying «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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