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title: For a long time all went well; they lived in great comfort, and pros… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long time all went well; they lived in great comfort, and prospered so far as to be able to add considerably to their stores. Who acts: mouse. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 2

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For a long time all went well; they lived in great comfort, and prospered so far as to be able to add considerably to their stores.

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**Who acts:** mouse · **What happens:** go, live, prosper, be, add · **To what, where:** great comfort

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse), 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:pg2591:21:2
# text = For a long time all went well; they lived in great comfort, and prospered so far as to be able to add considerably to their stores.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	considerably	considerably	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	stores	store	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  | time | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | mouse |  |  | great comfort |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comfort=Location |
| 3 | **prosper** | past | mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able, far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to mouse's stores; considerably *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to store=Co-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:** «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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