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description: He travelled about a long time in search of it and came at last to a dark forest, through which he went on walking for fourteen days and still could not find a way out. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 45

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He travelled about a long time in search of it and came at last to a dark forest, through which he went on walking for fourteen days and still could not find a way out.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** travel, come, go, walk, not find, search · **To what, where:** last, way, search

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg2591:47:45
# text = He travelled about a long time in search of it and came at last to a dark forest, through which he went on walking for fourteen days and still could not find a way out.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **travel** | past | man |  |  |  | time | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | man *not said here* |  |  | last |  | to a dark forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **walk** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **find** | could | man *not said here* | a way |  |  | still |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 6 | **search** |  |  | search |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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