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title: He had two richly laden ships then making a voyage upon the seas, in… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had two richly laden ships then making a voyage upon the seas, in which he had embarked all his wealth, in the hope of making great gains, when the news came that both were lost. Who acts: merchant, hope, news. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain, w
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 2

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He had two richly laden ships then making a voyage upon the seas, in which he had embarked all his wealth, in the hope of making great gains, when the news came that both were lost.

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**Who acts:** merchant, hope, news · **What happens:** have, lade, make, embark, come, lose · **To what, where:** two laden ships, voyage, wealth, hope, great gains, both

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, hope, news), 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:pg2591:51:2
# text = He had two richly laden ships then making a voyage upon the seas, in which he had embarked all his wealth, in the hope of making great gains, when the news came that both were lost.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	embarked	embark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	gains	gain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | merchant | two laden ships |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
| 2 | **lade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | merchant *not said here* | a voyage |  |  | then | upon the seas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |
| 4 | **embark** | past · perfect | merchant | merchant's wealth |  | the hope |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | great gains |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gain=Product |
| 6 | **come** | past | the news |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **lose** | past · passive |  | both |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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