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title: And when they came to the meadow, the princess sat down upon a bank… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they came to the meadow, the princess sat down upon a bank there and let down her waving locks of hair, which were all of pure gold; and when Curdken saw it glitter in the sun, he ran up, and would have pulled some of the locks out; but she cried-- Who acts: alas, princess, Curdken, gold. A
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 42

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And when they came to the meadow, the princess sat down upon a bank there and let down her waving locks of hair, which were all of pure gold; and when Curdken saw it glitter in the sun, he ran up, and would have pulled some of the locks out; but she cried--

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**Who acts:** alas, princess, Curdken, gold · **What happens:** come, sit down, let down, wave, see, glitter · **To what, where:** meadow, bank, locks, gold, sun, some

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (alas, princess, Curdken, 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:pg11027:6:42
# text = And when they came to the meadow, the princess sat down upon a bank there and let down her waving locks of hair, which were all of pure gold; and when Curdken saw it glitter in the sun, he ran up, and would have pulled some of the locks out; but she cried--
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
22	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
35	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	glitter	glitter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	aux	_	_
50	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	_
51	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
55	out	out	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | alas *= ala* |  |  | the meadow |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | the princess |  |  | a bank; there |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bank=Location |
| 3 | **let down** | infinitive | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wave** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | locks of hair |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient |
| 5 | **see** | past | Curdken | gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **glitter** | infinitive | gold *not said here* |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location |
| 7 | **run up** | past | Curdken |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **pull out** | would · perfect | Curdken *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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