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title: And taking him by the hand, she led him in; for she was the lady's m… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And taking him by the hand, she led him in; for she was the lady's maid. Who acts: maid. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 37

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And taking him by the hand, she led him in; for she was the lady's maid.

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**Who acts:** maid · **What happens:** take, lead, be · **To what, where:** John

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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:pg11027:16:37
# text = And taking him by the hand, she led him in; for she was the lady's maid.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  |  | John |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **lead** | past | maid | John |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | maid |  |  |  |  | for the lady's maid | tree rules |

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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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