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title: Then the king’s son left the forest, and walked by beaten and unbeat… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the king’s son left the forest, and walked by beaten and unbeaten paths ever onwards until at length he reached a great city. Who acts: son. 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 62

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Then the king’s son left the forest, and walked by beaten and unbeaten paths ever onwards until at length he reached a great city.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** leave, walk, beat, reach · **To what, where:** forest, beaten paths, great city, length

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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: who acts (son), 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:pg2591:59:62
# text = Then the king’s son left the forest, and walked by beaten and unbeaten paths ever onwards until at length he reached a great city.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	unbeaten	unbeaten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	onwards	onwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the king's son | the forest |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the king's son *not said here* | beaten paths |  |  |  | onwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory |
| 3 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | past | son | a great city |  | length |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent city=Theme at length=Asset |

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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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