--- title: Then she asked her sister to sit down and she would sing to her, and… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then she asked her sister to sit down and she would sing to her, and Three-Eyes did so, for she was very tired with her long walk in the heat of the sun. Then Two-Eyes began to sing as before: Who acts: Eye, Three Eyes, Two Eyes, sun.. 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Then Two-Eyes began to sing as before: **Who acts:** Eye, Three Eyes, Two Eyes, sun. · **What happens:** ask, sit down, sing, do, be, begin · **To what, where:** sister, heat 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 (Eye, Three Eyes, Two Eyes, sun.), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:25:36 # text = Then she asked her sister to sit down and she would sing to her, and Three-Eyes did so, for she was very tired with her long walk in the heat of the sun. Then Two-Eyes began to sing as before: 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 sun. Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 39 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 as as ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 before before ADV RB _ 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Eye | | Eye's sister | | then | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **sit down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Eye *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | would | Eye | | sister | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 4 | **do** | past | Three Eyes | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | Eye | | | | | with Eye's long walk in the heat of the sun.; tired *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **begin** | past | Two Eyes | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Two Eyes *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **walk** | | Eye | | | the heat of the sun. | | | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place | | 9 | **heat** | | the sun. | | | | | | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/37/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/)