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title: But when she came on deck, she perceived that they were upon the hig… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But when she came on deck, she perceived that they were upon the high sea, far from the shore, and were hastening on with all sail. " Who acts: Princess, heart. 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 47

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But when she came on deck, she perceived that they were upon the high sea, far from the shore, and were hastening on with all sail. "

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**Who acts:** Princess, heart · **What happens:** come, perceive, be, hasten on · **To what, where:** deck

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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 (Princess, heart), 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:pg11027:16:47
# text = But when she came on deck, she perceived that they were upon the high sea, far from the shore, and were hastening on with all sail. "
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Princess |  |  | deck |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Location |
| 2 | **perceive** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | upon the high sea | tree rules |
| 4 | **hasten on** | past · progressive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with all sail | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with sail=Eventuality |

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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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