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title: The King's daughter was full of joy when she again saw her beautiful… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The King's daughter was full of joy when she again saw her beautiful plaything; and, taking it up, she ran off immediately. " Who acts: daughter, frog. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 20

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The King's daughter was full of joy when she again saw her beautiful plaything; and, taking it up, she ran off immediately. "

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**Who acts:** daughter, frog · **What happens:** be, see, take up, run off · **To what, where:** beautiful plaything, plaything

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, frog), 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:pg11027:21:20
# text = The King's daughter was full of joy when she again saw her beautiful plaything; and, taking it up, she ran off immediately. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	plaything	plaything	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King's daughter |  |  |  |  | of joy; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | frog | frog's beautiful plaything |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plaything=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take up** | gerund |  | plaything |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **run off** | past | frog |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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