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title: Some time after, three grand embassies came to the old king’s court,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time after, three grand embassies came to the old king’s court, with rich gifts of gold and precious stones for his youngest son; now all these were sent from the three kings to whom he had lent his sword and loaf of bread, in order to rid them of their enemy and feed their people. Who acts: th
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 68

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Some time after, three grand embassies came to the old king’s court, with rich gifts of gold and precious stones for his youngest son; now all these were sent from the three kings to whom he had lent his sword and loaf of bread, in order to rid them of their enemy and feed their people.

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**Who acts:** three grand embassies, king · **What happens:** come, send, lend, rid, feed, gift · **To what, where:** court, these, sword, people, gold

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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 (three grand embassies, king), 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:pg2591:49:68
# text = Some time after, three grand embassies came to the old king’s court, with rich gifts of gold and precious stones for his youngest son; now all these were sent from the three kings to whom he had lent his sword and loaf of bread, in order to rid them of their enemy and feed their people.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	embassies	embassy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
31	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nmod	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	lent	lend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	53	mark	_	_
51	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	fixed	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	rid	rid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	conj	_	_
60	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | three grand embassies |  |  | the old king's court | time | with rich gifts of gold for king's youngest son and precious stones | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | these |  |  | now | from the three kings | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from king=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lend** | past · perfect | king | king's sword and loaf of bread |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 4 | **rid** | to-infinitive |  | sword |  |  |  | of embassies's enemy | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Source of enemy=Theme |
| 5 | **feed** | present |  |  | embassies's people |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 6 | **gift** |  |  | gold |  |  |  | for king's youngest son | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient for=obl |

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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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