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title: Our honest friend journeyed on his way too; and if he was merry befo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Our honest friend journeyed on his way too; and if he was merry before, he was now ten times more so. Who acts: honest friend, friend. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 16

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Our honest friend journeyed on his way too; and if he was merry before, he was now ten times more so.

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**Who acts:** honest friend, friend · **What happens:** journey, be · **To what, where:** way

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honest friend, friend), 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:pg2591:33:16
# text = Our honest friend journeyed on his way too; and if he was merry before, he was now ten times more so.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	merry	merry	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | Our honest friend |  |  | friend's way |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | friend |  |  |  |  | before, merry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | friend |  |  |  | now; time | more *property* | tree rules |

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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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