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title: After the space of four years, at the time agreed upon, the four bro… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After the space of four years, at the time agreed upon, the four brothers met at the four cross-roads; and having welcomed each other, set off towards their father’s home, where they told him all that had happened to them, and how each had learned some craft. Who acts: four brothers, brothers, that,
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 23

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After the space of four years, at the time agreed upon, the four brothers met at the four cross-roads; and having welcomed each other, set off towards their father’s home, where they told him all that had happened to them, and how each had learned some craft.

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**Who acts:** four brothers, brothers, that, each · **What happens:** agree, meet, welcome, set off, tell, happen · **To what, where:** time, four cross-roads, other, home, man, brothers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four brothers, brothers, that, each), 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:pg2591:43:23
# text = After the space of four years, at the time agreed upon, the four brothers met at the four cross-roads; and having welcomed each other, set off towards their father’s home, where they told him all that had happened to them, and how each had learned some craft.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux	_	_
25	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	_
41	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	ccomp	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
50	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
53	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	det	_	_
54	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | past | the four brothers |  |  | the four cross-roads | after the space of four years and the time |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **welcome** | gerund · perfect | the four brothers *not said here* | each other |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
| 4 | **set off** | participle | the four brothers *not said here* |  |  | brothers's father's home |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards home=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | brothers *= brother* |  | man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **happen** | past · perfect | that |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **learn** | past · perfect | each | some craft |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent craft=Topic |

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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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