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title: For if, after the wedding, a dance is held, while the young Queen da… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: For if, after the wedding, a dance is held, while the young Queen dances she will suddenly turn pale, and fall down as if dead; and if some one does not raise her up, and take three drops of blood from her right breast and throw them away, she will die. Who acts: young Queen, Queen, one. A sentence 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 71

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For if, after the wedding, a dance is held, while the young Queen dances she will suddenly turn pale, and fall down as if dead; and if some one does not raise her up, and take three drops of blood from her right breast and throw them away, she will die.

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**Who acts:** young Queen, Queen, one · **What happens:** hold, dance, turn, fall down, not raise up, take · **To what, where:** dance, Queen, three drops, right breast, drops

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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 (young Queen, Queen, one), 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:pg11027:16:71
# text = For if, after the wedding, a dance is held, while the young Queen dances she will suddenly turn pale, and fall down as if dead; and if some one does not raise her up, and take three drops of blood from her right breast and throw them away, she will die.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
43	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	away	away	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · passive |  | a dance |  |  |  | for the wedding | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | present | the young Queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | future | Queen |  |  |  |  | pale, suddenly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall down** | infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as dead | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **raise up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | some one | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive |  | three drops of blood |  | Queen's right breast |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent drop=Theme from breast=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **throw away** | infinitive |  | drops *= drop* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **die** | future | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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