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title: However, they all set out on their journey together, and came at las… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: However, they all set out on their journey together, and came at last to an ant-hill. Who acts: sons. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 3

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However, they all set out on their journey together, and came at last to an ant-hill.

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**Who acts:** sons · **What happens:** set out, come, journey · **To what, where:** journey, last

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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), 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:pg2591:36:3
# text = However, they all set out on their journey together, and came at last to an ant-hill.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **set out** | past | sons *= son* |  |  | sons's journey |  | all, however, together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | sons *= son* *not said here* |  |  | last |  | to a ant hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **journey** |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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