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title: She had no one to converse with and for laughing she had no spirits,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: She had no one to converse with and for laughing she had no spirits, so there up in the tree she sat, intent upon her work. Who acts: sister. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 42

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She had no one to converse with and for laughing she had no spirits, so there up in the tree she sat, intent upon her work.

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**Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** have, converse, laugh, sit, work · **To what, where:** one, spirits, intent, work

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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 (sister), 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:pg11027:19:42
# text = She had no one to converse with and for laughing she had no spirits, so there up in the tree she sat, intent upon her work.
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	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	converse	converse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	parataxis	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	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 | sister | no one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **converse** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | sister *not said here* | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **laugh** | gerund | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | sister | no spirits |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient |
| 5 | **sit** | past | sister | intent |  | sister's work |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent intent=Theme upon work=Location |
| 6 | **work** |  | sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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