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title: Now there were thirteen fairies in his kingdom, and he had only twel… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there were thirteen fairies in his kingdom, and he had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, so that he was obliged to leave one of the fairies without an invitation. Who acts: thirteen fairies, wish, fairies. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose, with its
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 5

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Now there were thirteen fairies in his kingdom, and he had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, so that he was obliged to leave one of the fairies without an invitation.

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**Who acts:** thirteen fairies, wish, fairies · **What happens:** be, have, eat out, oblige, leave · **To what, where:** twelve golden dishes, wish, one

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thirteen fairies, wish, fairies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg11027:859`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:18:5
# text = Now there were thirteen fairies in his kingdom, and he had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, so that he was obliged to leave one of the fairies without an invitation.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | thirteen fairies in wish's kingdom |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | wish | twelve golden dishes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |
| 3 | **eat out** | to-infinitive | fairies *= fairy* | twelve golden dishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | wish |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | one of the fairies |  |  |  | without a invitation | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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