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title: The maidens by this time were quite used to his ungrateful, ungracio… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The maidens by this time were quite used to his ungrateful, ungracious ways; so they took no notice of it, but went on their way, made their purchases, and then were ready to return to their happy home. Who acts: maidens. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red,
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 94

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The maidens by this time were quite used to his ungrateful, ungracious ways; so they took no notice of it, but went on their way, made their purchases, and then were ready to return to their happy home.

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**Who acts:** maidens · **What happens:** use, take, go, make, be, return · **To what, where:** maidens, notice, way, purchases

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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 (maidens), 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:pg11027:23:94
# text = The maidens by this time were quite used to his ungrateful, ungracious ways; so they took no notice of it, but went on their way, made their purchases, and then were ready to return to their happy home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	ungracious	ungracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	purchases	purchase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | the maidens by this time |  |  |  | to voice's ungrateful ungracious ways | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | maidens *= maiden* | no notice of notice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | maidens *= maiden* *not said here* |  |  | maidens's way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 4 | **make** | past | maidens *= maiden* *not said here* | maidens's purchases |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset purchase=Product |
| 5 | **is** | past | maidens *= maiden* *not said here* |  |  |  | then | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **return** | to-infinitive | maidens *= maiden* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to maidens's happy home *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
| 7 | **notice** |  |  | notice |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **purchase** |  | maidens *= maiden* |  |  |  |  |  | nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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