--- title: All the fairies' gifts were in the meantime fulfilled; for the princ… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: All the fairies' gifts were in the meantime fulfilled; for the princess was so beautiful, and well-behaved and amiable, and wise, that every one who knew her loved her. Who acts: gifts, one, fairies. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gifts, one, fairies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:18:11 # text = All the fairies' gifts were in the meantime fulfilled; for the princess was so beautiful, and well-behaved and amiable, and wise, that every one who knew her loved her. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 5 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ' 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 fulfilled fulfil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 behaved behave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 amiable amiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the fairies's gifts | | | the meantime | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fulfil** | participle | | the meantime *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | | for the princess; beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **behave** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** | past | that one | princess | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 6 | **love** | past | that one | princess | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 7 | **gift** | | the fairies | | | | | | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/18/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/18/12/) - ↑ back to [Briar Rose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/18/)