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title: So he went away to try and find the castle of his friends; and after… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went away to try and find the castle of his friends; and after wandering about a few days he luckily found it. Who acts: cloud. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 44

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So he went away to try and find the castle of his friends; and after wandering about a few days he luckily found it.

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**Who acts:** cloud · **What happens:** go away, try, find, wonder · **To what, where:** castle

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud), 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:pg2591:56:44
# text = So he went away to try and find the castle of his friends; and after wandering about a few days he luckily found it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | cloud |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive | cloud *not said here* | the castle of cloud's friends |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | cloud *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **find** | past | cloud | castle |  |  |  | luckily *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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