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title: She had now no peace until she discovered where this ball was concea… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: She had now no peace until she discovered where this ball was concealed, and then she made some fine silken shirts, and, as she had learnt of her mother, she sewed within each a charm. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans, with its dependency tree and 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 17

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She had now no peace until she discovered where this ball was concealed, and then she made some fine silken shirts, and, as she had learnt of her mother, she sewed within each a charm.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** have, discover, conceal, make, learn, sew · **To what, where:** peace, ball, fine silken shirts

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg11027:19:17
# text = She had now no peace until she discovered where this ball was concealed, and then she made some fine silken shirts, and, as she had learnt of her mother, she sewed within each a charm.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
36	within	within	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | woman | no peace |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
| 2 | **discover** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **conceal** | past · passive |  | this ball |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | woman | some fine silken shirts |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Product |
| 5 | **learn** | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  | of woman's mother | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of mother=Topic |
| 6 | **sew** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | within each charm | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: 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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