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title: So she cried out, "The king's daughter shall in her fifteenth year b… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So she cried out, "The king's daughter shall in her fifteenth year be wounded by a spindle, and fall down dead." Who acts: eleven. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 8

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So she cried out, "The king's daughter shall in her fifteenth year be wounded by a spindle, and fall down dead."

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**Who acts:** eleven · **What happens:** cry out, wound, fall down · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (eleven), 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:pg11027:18:8
# text = So she cried out, "The king's daughter shall in her fifteenth year be wounded by a spindle, and fall down dead."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	spindle	spindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | eleven |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wound** *in a quote* | shall · passive | eleven *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a spindle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **fall down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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