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title: There he ordered rich clothing to be made for her, and, although her… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: There he ordered rich clothing to be made for her, and, although her beauty shone as the sunbeams, not a word escaped her. Who acts: King, rich clothing, beauty. 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 54

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There he ordered rich clothing to be made for her, and, although her beauty shone as the sunbeams, not a word escaped her.

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**Who acts:** King, rich clothing, beauty · **What happens:** order, make, shine, escape · **To what, where:** rich clothing, beauty, maiden

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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 (King, rich clothing, beauty), 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:pg11027:19:54
# text = There he ordered rich clothing to be made for her, and, although her beauty shone as the sunbeams, not a word escaped her.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
17	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | King | rich clothing |  | there |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clothing=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | rich clothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for maiden | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for she=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **shine** | participle |  | maiden's beauty *not said here* |  |  |  | as the sunbeams | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **escape** | past | maiden's beauty | maiden |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Initial\_Location |

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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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