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title: Many, he added, had already ventured into this castle, but no one ha… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Many, he added, had already ventured into this castle, but no one had ever come out again. Who acts: King, one. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 84

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Many, he added, had already ventured into this castle, but no one had ever come out again.

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**Who acts:** King, one · **What happens:** add, venture, come out · **To what, where:** Many, castle

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, one), 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:pg11027:9:84
# text = Many, he added, had already ventured into this castle, but no one had ever come out again.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	already	already	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ventured	venture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | King | Many |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
| 2 | **venture** | past · perfect |  |  |  | this castle |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come out** | past | no one |  |  |  | ever; again | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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