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title: Not long afterwards the two sisters went to angle in the brook, mean… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long afterwards the two sisters went to angle in the brook, meaning to catch fish for dinner. Who acts: two sisters. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 67

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Not long afterwards the two sisters went to angle in the brook, meaning to catch fish for dinner.

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**Who acts:** two sisters · **What happens:** go, mean, catch · **To what, where:** fish

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two sisters), 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:pg11027:23:67
# text = Not long afterwards the two sisters went to angle in the brook, meaning to catch fish for dinner.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	angle	angle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the two sisters |  |  |  |  | afterwards, long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | the two sisters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the two sisters *not said here* | fish |  |  |  | for dinner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary |

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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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