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title: On the way the dwarf showed him the treasures which the witch had co… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the way the dwarf showed him the treasures which the witch had collected and hidden there, and the soldier took as much gold as he could carry. Who acts: dwarf, soldier. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 29

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On the way the dwarf showed him the treasures which the witch had collected and hidden there, and the soldier took as much gold as he could carry.

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**Who acts:** dwarf, soldier · **What happens:** show, collect, hide, take, carry · **To what, where:** treasures, soldier, way, much gold

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, soldier), 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:pg2591:46:29
# text = On the way the dwarf showed him the treasures which the witch had collected and hidden there, and the soldier took as much gold as he could carry.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the dwarf | the treasures | soldier | the way |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient treasure=Topic |
| 2 | **collect** | past · perfect · passive |  | the treasures |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | the soldier | much gold |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | could | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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