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title: But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Cinder… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Cinderella had planted, and there sat a little dove on the branch, singing-- Who acts: sons, Cinderella. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 180

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But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Cinderella had planted, and there sat a little dove on the branch, singing--

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**Who acts:** sons, Cinderella · **What happens:** have, pass, plant, sit, sing · **To what, where:** way, little dove, branch

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, Cinderella), 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:pg11027:15:180
# text = But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Cinderella had planted, and there sat a little dove on the branch, singing--
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | sons *= son* |  |  | sons's way |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | sons *= son* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the hazel tree | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by tree=Location |
| 3 | **plant** | past · perfect | Cinderella |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | past | sons *= son* *not said here* | a little dove |  | the branch; there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme on branch=Location |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | sons *= son* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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