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title: The lord was willing, and let both of them have a seat in the carria… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The lord was willing, and let both of them have a seat in the carriage, and they all drove away together. Who acts: lord, both, words. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 14

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The lord was willing, and let both of them have a seat in the carriage, and they all drove away together.

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**Who acts:** lord, both, words · **What happens:** be, let, have, drive away · **To what, where:** seat, carriage

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, both, words), 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:pg2591:52:14
# text = The lord was willing, and let both of them have a seat in the carriage, and they all drove away together.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the lord |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | the lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | both | a seat |  | the carriage |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient |
| 4 | **drive away** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | away, together *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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