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title: Then the Maiden knew them at once for her brothers, and gladly crept… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Maiden knew them at once for her brothers, and gladly crept out from under the bed, and the brothers were not less glad to see their sister, but their joy was of short duration. " Who acts: Maiden, brothers, joy, Swans. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans, wi
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 32

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Then the Maiden knew them at once for her brothers, and gladly crept out from under the bed, and the brothers were not less glad to see their sister, but their joy was of short duration. "

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**Who acts:** Maiden, brothers, joy, Swans · **What happens:** know, creep out, be, see, joy · **To what, where:** Swans, bed, sister

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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 (Maiden, brothers, joy, Swans), 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:pg11027:19:32
# text = Then the Maiden knew them at once for her brothers, and gladly crept out from under the bed, and the brothers were not less glad to see their sister, but their joy was of short duration. "
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the Maiden | Swans *= swan* |  |  | then | for maiden's brothers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **creep out** | past |  |  |  | the bed |  | gladly, out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bed=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | the brothers |  |  |  |  | glad, less *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the brothers *not said here* | Swans's sister |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | Swans's joy |  |  |  |  | of short duration | tree rules |
| 6 | **joy** |  | Swans *= swan* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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