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title: One morning, not long after the springing up of the apple-tree, the… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning, not long after the springing up of the apple-tree, the three sisters were all standing together beneath it, when in the distance a young Knight was seen riding toward them. " Who acts: three sisters, young Knight. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 77

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One morning, not long after the springing up of the apple-tree, the three sisters were all standing together beneath it, when in the distance a young Knight was seen riding toward them. "

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**Who acts:** three sisters, young Knight · **What happens:** spring, stand together, see, ride · **To what, where:** tree, young Knight

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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 (three sisters, young Knight), 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:pg11027:25:77
# text = One morning, not long after the springing up of the apple-tree, the three sisters were all standing together beneath it, when in the distance a young Knight was seen riding toward them. "
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
35	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	_
36	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand together** | past · progressive | the three sisters |  |  | tree |  | all, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | a young Knight |  |  |  | in the distance | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** | gerund | a young Knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward boughs *= bough* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward they=Trajectory |

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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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