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title: So messengers were sent far and wide, to seek for a bride as beautif… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So messengers were sent far and wide, to seek for a bride as beautiful as the late queen. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 153

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So messengers were sent far and wide, to seek for a bride as beautiful as the late queen.

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**What happens:** send, seek · **To what, where:** messengers

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2591:59:153
# text = So messengers were sent far and wide, to seek for a bride as beautiful as the late queen.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | messengers |  |  |  | far *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for a bride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bride=Theme |

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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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