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title: After some time had passed, the Queen bore twins, two little sons, w… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: After some time had passed, the Queen bore twins, two little sons, who were her great joy. Who acts: Queen, two little sons. 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 95

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After some time had passed, the Queen bore twins, two little sons, who were her great joy.

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**Who acts:** Queen, two little sons · **What happens:** pass, twin, be · **To what, where:** great joy

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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 (Queen, two little sons), 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:pg11027:16:95
# text = After some time had passed, the Queen bore twins, two little sons, who were her great joy.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	bore	bore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **twin** |  | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | two little sons and Queen's great joy | Queen's great joy |  |  |  |  | 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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