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title: Two kings’ sons once upon a time went into the world to seek their f… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Two kings’ sons once upon a time went into the world to seek their fortunes; but they soon fell into a wasteful foolish way of living, so that they could not return home again. Who acts: sons, wasteful foolish way. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee, with its dependenc
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 1

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Two kings’ sons once upon a time went into the world to seek their fortunes; but they soon fell into a wasteful foolish way of living, so that they could not return home again.

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**Who acts:** sons, wasteful foolish way · **What happens:** go, seek, fall, live, not return · **To what, where:** world, fortunes, wasteful foolish way

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, wasteful foolish way), 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:pg2591:36:1
# text = Two kings’ sons once upon a time went into the world to seek their fortunes; but they soon fell into a wasteful foolish way of living, so that they could not return home again.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	wasteful	wasteful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	35	mark	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
36	home	home	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Two kings's sons |  |  | the world |  | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Two kings's sons *not said here* | sons's fortunes |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | into a wasteful foolish way *result*; soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into way=Result |
| 4 | **live** | gerund | a wasteful foolish way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **return** | could | sons *= son* |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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