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title: When the time had elapsed, and the sentence was to be carried out, i… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When the time had elapsed, and the sentence was to be carried out, it happened that the very day had come round when her dear brothers should be set free; the six shirts were also ready, all but the last, which yet wanted the left sleeve. Who acts: it, dear brothers, six shirts. A sentence of «Grimm
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 64

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When the time had elapsed, and the sentence was to be carried out, it happened that the very day had come round when her dear brothers should be set free; the six shirts were also ready, all but the last, which yet wanted the left sleeve.

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**Who acts:** it, dear brothers, six shirts · **What happens:** elapse, carry out, happen, come round, be, want · **To what, where:** time, sentence, left sleeve

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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 (it, dear brothers, six shirts), 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:pg11027:19:64
# text = When the time had elapsed, and the sentence was to be carried out, it happened that the very day had come round when her dear brothers should be set free; the six shirts were also ready, all but the last, which yet wanted the left sleeve.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	elapsed	elapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	round	round	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	also	also	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	obl	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
47	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elapse** | past · perfect · passive |  | the time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry out** | past · passive |  | the sentence |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come round** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | day | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | should | woman's dear brothers |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | the six shirts |  |  |  |  | all *obl*; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | the six shirts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **want** | past |  | the left sleeve |  |  | yet |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleeve=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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