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title: When the maiden was left alone, the Dwarf again appeared and asked,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When the maiden was left alone, the Dwarf again appeared and asked, for the third time, "What will you give me to do this for you?" Who acts: Dwarf, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 106

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When the maiden was left alone, the Dwarf again appeared and asked, for the third time, "What will you give me to do this for you?"

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**Who acts:** Dwarf, you · **What happens:** leave, appear, ask, give, do · **To what, where:** maiden, third time, Dwarf, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf, you), 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:pg11027:24:106
# text = When the maiden was left alone, the Dwarf again appeared and asked, for the third time, "What will you give me to do this for you?"
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | the maiden |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the Dwarf |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Dwarf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | future | you | the third time | the Dwarf *= dwarf* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | this |  |  |  | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |

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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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