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title: So, to make a sort of drawn battle of the matter, it was settled tha… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So, to make a sort of drawn battle of the matter, it was settled that Heinel should be put into an open boat, that lay on the sea-shore hard by; that the father should push him off with his own hand, and that he should thus be set adrift, and left to the bad or good luck of wind and weather. Who act
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 32

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So, to make a sort of drawn battle of the matter, it was settled that Heinel should be put into an open boat, that lay on the sea-shore hard by; that the father should push him off with his own hand, and that he should thus be set adrift, and left to the bad or good luck of wind and weather.

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**Who acts:** that, father · **What happens:** make, draw, settle, put, lie, push off · **To what, where:** sort, Heinel, open boat, sea shore, bad luck, drawn battle

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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 (that, father), 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:pg2591:51:32
# text = So, to make a sort of drawn battle of the matter, it was settled that Heinel should be put into an open boat, that lay on the sea-shore hard by; that the father should push him off with his own hand, and that he should thus be set adrift, and left to the bad or good luck of wind and weather.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	Heinel	Heinel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	off	off	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
52	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
53	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	cop	_	_
55	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	adrift	adrift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	56	conj	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
62	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
63	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	conj	_	_
65	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nmod	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a sort of drawn battle of the matter |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sort=Product |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **settle** | past · passive |  | sort |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 4 | **put** | should · passive |  | Heinel |  | a open boat |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 5 | **lie** | past | that |  |  | the sea shore |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location |
| 6 | **push off** | should | the father | Heinel |  |  |  | with Heinel's own hand | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | should | father |  |  |  |  | adrift, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **leave** | participle | father *not said here* |  |  | the bad luck of wind and weather |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to luck=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | drawn battle of the matter |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **battle** |  |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | nom battle «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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