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title: Her mother took them of her, but returned her no thanks; and the two… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mother took them of her, but returned her no thanks; and the two sisters, instead of treating Two-Eyes better than they had done, were only the more envious of her, because she alone could gather the fruit--in fact, they treated her worse. Who acts: mother, boughs, Eye. A sentence of «Grimm's Fa
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 76

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Her mother took them of her, but returned her no thanks; and the two sisters, instead of treating Two-Eyes better than they had done, were only the more envious of her, because she alone could gather the fruit--in fact, they treated her worse.

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**Who acts:** mother, boughs, Eye · **What happens:** take, return, treat, do, be, gather · **To what, where:** boughs, thanks, fruit, Eye

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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 (mother, boughs, Eye), 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:pg11027:25:76
# text = Her mother took them of her, but returned her no thanks; and the two sisters, instead of treating Two-Eyes better than they had done, were only the more envious of her, because she alone could gather the fruit--in fact, they treated her worse.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
22	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
52	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Eye's mother | boughs *= bough* |  |  |  | of Eye; the two sisters *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme of she=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **return** | past | Eye's mother *not said here* | Eye's thanks |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |
| 3 | **treat** | gerund | Eye's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | boughs *= bough* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | Eye's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Eye; envious *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **gather** | could | Eye | the fruit |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme |
| 7 | **treat** | past | boughs *= bough* |  | Eye |  |  | bad *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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