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title: When the time came for them to set out, the old queen went into her… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When the time came for them to set out, the old queen went into her bed-chamber, and took a little knife, and cut off a lock of her hair, and gave it to her daughter, saying, "Take care of it, dear child; for it is a charm that may be of use to you on the road." Who acts: time, hands, old queen, hor
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 5

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When the time came for them to set out, the old queen went into her bed-chamber, and took a little knife, and cut off a lock of her hair, and gave it to her daughter, saying, "Take care of it, dear child; for it is a charm that may be of use to you on the road."

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**Who acts:** time, hands, old queen, horse, charm · **What happens:** come, set out, go, take, cut off, give · **To what, where:** bed chamber, little knife, lock, daughter, care, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (time, hands, old queen, horse), 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:pg11027:6:5
# text = When the time came for them to set out, the old queen went into her bed-chamber, and took a little knife, and cut off a lock of her hair, and gave it to her daughter, saying, "Take care of it, dear child; for it is a charm that may be of use to you on the road."
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
29	off	off	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	ccomp	_	_
47	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
59	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	nsubj	_	_
60	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
61	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	cop	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	acl:relcl	_	_
64	to	to	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	63	nmod	_	_
66	on	on	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	58	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | to-infinitive | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | the old queen |  |  | queen's bed chamber |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | past |  | a little knife |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 5 | **cut off** | participle |  | a lock of queen's hair |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lock=Eventuality |
| 6 | **give** | past |  | lock | queen's daughter |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to daughter=Recipient |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | care |  |  |  | of care; dear child *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | horse |  |  |  |  | for a charm | tree rules |
| 10 | **is** *in a quote* | may | a charm |  | you | the road |  | of use | tree rules |

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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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