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title: Then they all three rode on together, and on their way home came to… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they all three rode on together, and on their way home came to a country that was laid waste by war and a dreadful famine, so that it was feared all must die for want. Who acts: armies, war, all. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 46

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Then they all three rode on together, and on their way home came to a country that was laid waste by war and a dreadful famine, so that it was feared all must die for want.

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**Who acts:** armies, war, all · **What happens:** ride, come, lay, fear, die · **To what, where:** way, country, waste · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (armies, war, all), 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:pg2591:49:46
# text = Then they all three rode on together, and on their way home came to a country that was laid waste by war and a dreadful famine, so that it was feared all must die for want.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	nsubj	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | armies *= army* |  |  |  | then |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | armies *= army* *not said here* |  |  | armies's way |  | to a country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay** | past · passive | war and a dreadful famine | a country |  |  |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme waste=Destination |
| 4 | **fear** | past · passive |  | waste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** | must | all |  |  |  |  | for want | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for want=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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