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title: The girl told all that had happened to her; and as soon as the mothe… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl told all that had happened to her; and as soon as the mother heard how she had come by so much wealth, she was very anxious to obtain the same good luck for the ugly and lazy daughter. Who acts: girl, that, mother. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 32

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The girl told all that had happened to her; and as soon as the mother heard how she had come by so much wealth, she was very anxious to obtain the same good luck for the ugly and lazy daughter.

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**Who acts:** girl, that, mother · **What happens:** tell, happen, hear, come, be, obtain · **To what, where:** girl, same good luck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, that, mother), 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:pg11027:20:32
# text = The girl told all that had happened to her; and as soon as the mother heard how she had come by so much wealth, she was very anxious to obtain the same good luck for the ugly and lazy daughter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	csubj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
42	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect | that |  | girl |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | girl |  |  |  |  | by much wealth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wealth=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **obtain** | to-infinitive |  | the same good luck |  |  |  | for the ugly daughter | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent luck=Theme for daughter=Asset |

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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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