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title: Then they were all placed on sixty country carts, and driven home to… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they were all placed on sixty country carts, and driven home to the king, and for once he was able to deck his table with game, after having had none at all for years. Who acts: huntsman. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 43

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Then they were all placed on sixty country carts, and driven home to the king, and for once he was able to deck his table with game, after having had none at all for years.

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**Who acts:** huntsman · **What happens:** place, drive, be, deck, have · **To what, where:** deer, sixty country carts, table, none, all

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman), 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:pg2591:31:43
# text = Then they were all placed on sixty country carts, and driven home to the king, and for once he was able to deck his table with game, after having had none at all for years.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	deck	deck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
34	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	33	obj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	obl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive |  | deer |  | sixty country carts | then | all *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on cart=Destination |
| 2 | **drive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the king; home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to king=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | huntsman |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **deck** | to-infinitive | huntsman *not said here* | huntsman's table |  |  |  | with game | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent table=Destination with game=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | gerund | huntsman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | huntsman *not said here* | none |  | all | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=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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