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title: When she came to the place with it, Thumbling, unperceived, hid hims… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When she came to the place with it, Thumbling, unperceived, hid himself in the granary, and the maid, after she had examined every corner and found nothing, lay down in her bed again, and believed that, after all, she had only been dreaming with open eyes and ears. Who acts: maid. A sentence of «Gri
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 140

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When she came to the place with it, Thumbling, unperceived, hid himself in the granary, and the maid, after she had examined every corner and found nothing, lay down in her bed again, and believed that, after all, she had only been dreaming with open eyes and ears.

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**Who acts:** maid · **What happens:** come, thumbl, unperceiv, hide, examine, find · **To what, where:** place, Huntsman, granary, maid, nothing, bed

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. 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:pg11027:17:140
# text = When she came to the place with it, Thumbling, unperceived, hid himself in the granary, and the maid, after she had examined every corner and found nothing, lay down in her bed again, and believed that, after all, she had only been dreaming with open eyes and ears.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	unperceived	unperceiv	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	granary	granary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	examined	examine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	after	after	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
50	only	only	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	52	aux	_	_
52	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | maid |  |  | the place with place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **thumbl** | gerund | maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **unperceiv** | participle | maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | past |  | Huntsman |  | the granary |  | the maid *obl* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in granary=Location |
| 5 | **examine** | past · perfect · passive |  | maid |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme corner=Attribute |
| 6 | **find** | past |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 7 | **lay down** | infinitive |  |  |  | maid's bed | again | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bed=Destination |
| 8 | **believe** | past |  | that |  |  | after all |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 9 | **dream** | past · perfect · progressive | maid |  |  |  |  | with open eyes and ears | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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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