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title: said the maiden, and immediately a table covered with a white cloth… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: said the maiden, and immediately a table covered with a white cloth stood before her, with a knife and fork, and silver spoon; and the most delicate dishes were ranged in order upon it, and everything as warm as if they had been just taken away from the fire. Who acts: table. A sentence of «Grimm's 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 18

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said the maiden, and immediately a table covered with a white cloth stood before her, with a knife and fork, and silver spoon; and the most delicate dishes were ranged in order upon it, and everything as warm as if they had been just taken away from the fire.

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**Who acts:** table · **What happens:** say, cover, stand, range, take away · **To what, where:** maiden, table, silver spoon, delicate dishes, order, dishes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (table), 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:pg11027:25:18
# text = said the maiden, and immediately a table covered with a white cloth stood before her, with a knife and fork, and silver spoon; and the most delicate dishes were ranged in order upon it, and everything as warm as if they had been just taken away from the fire.
1	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
6	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	34	obl	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	nmod	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
49	just	just	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
51	away	away	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the maiden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | a table *not said here* |  |  |  | with a white cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | a table | silver spoon |  |  | before Woman | with a knife and fork; immediately *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |
| 4 | **range** | past · passive |  | the delicate dishes |  | order upon order |  | everything *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **take away** | past · perfect · passive |  | dishes *= dish* |  | the fire |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from fire=Initial\_Location |

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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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