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title: The path led him into a wood, and there he saw two old ravens standi… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The path led him into a wood, and there he saw two old ravens standing by their nest, and throwing out their young ones. Who acts: path, king, two old ravens. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 30

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The path led him into a wood, and there he saw two old ravens standing by their nest, and throwing out their young ones.

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**Who acts:** path, king, two old ravens · **What happens:** lead, see, stand, throw out · **To what, where:** king, wood, two old ravens, young ones

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (path, king, two old ravens), 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:pg2591:34:30
# text = The path led him into a wood, and there he saw two old ravens standing by their nest, and throwing out their young ones.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the path | king |  | a wood |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into wood=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | king | two old ravens |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | two old ravens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by ravens's nest | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by nest=Location |
| 4 | **throw out** | gerund | king *not said here* | ravens's young ones |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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