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title: "Maiden, fairest, come to me, 'Tis a mortal here you see; Let us spe… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Maiden, fairest, come to me, 'Tis a mortal here you see; Let us speed all his desires, Giving him what he requires." Who acts: you, us, Maiden. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 16

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"Maiden, fairest, come to me, 'Tis a mortal here you see; Let us speed all his desires, Giving him what he requires."

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**Who acts:** you, us, Maiden · **What happens:** come, see, let, speed, give, require · **To what, where:** eastwards, us, desires, Maiden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, Maiden), 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:pg11027:10:16
# text = "Maiden, fairest, come to me, 'Tis a mortal here you see; Let us speed all his desires, Giving him what he requires."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Tis	tis	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | eastwards *= eastward* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | tis a mortal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speed** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | Maiden's desires |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Agent |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | us *not said here* |  | Maiden |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **require** *in a quote* | present | Maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition |
| 7 | **desire** *in a quote* |  | Maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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