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title: But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful pri… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live, and have the bird and the horse given him for his own. Who acts: son, horse. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 39

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But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live, and have the bird and the horse given him for his own.

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**Who acts:** son, horse · **What happens:** agree, bring, live, have, give · **To what, where:** saddle, beautiful princess, bird, son

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, 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:pg2591:2:39
# text = But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live, and have the bird and the horse given him for his own.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · passive |  | saddle |  |  |  | that *obl* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | son |  | the beautiful princess |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |
| 3 | **live** | should | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | infinitive | son *not said here* | the bird and the horse |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | participle | the horse *not said here* | son |  |  |  | for son's own | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme for own=Asset |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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