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title: The following morning they found in front of the house a wonderfully… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The following morning they found in front of the house a wonderfully beautiful tree, with leaves of silver and fruits of gold hanging from the boughs, than which nothing more splendid could be seen in the world. Who acts: entrails, gold. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little O
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 66

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The following morning they found in front of the house a wonderfully beautiful tree, with leaves of silver and fruits of gold hanging from the boughs, than which nothing more splendid could be seen in the world.

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**Who acts:** entrails, gold · **What happens:** follow, find, hang, see · **To what, where:** beautiful tree, front, boughs, nothing, world

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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 (entrails, gold), 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:pg11027:25:66
# text = The following morning they found in front of the house a wonderfully beautiful tree, with leaves of silver and fruits of gold hanging from the boughs, than which nothing more splendid could be seen in the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | entrails *= entrail* | a beautiful tree |  | front of the house | morning | with leaves of silver and fruits of gold | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund | gold *not said here* |  |  | the boughs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | could · passive |  | nothing |  | the world |  | than the boughs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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