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title: The next morning, as they were going through the dark gate, the poor… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning, as they were going through the dark gate, the poor girl looked up at Falada's head, and cried-- Who acts: hills, poor girl. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 50

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The next morning, as they were going through the dark gate, the poor girl looked up at Falada's head, and cried--

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**Who acts:** hills, poor girl · **What happens:** go, look up, cry · **To what, where:** next morning, dark gate

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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 (hills, poor girl), 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:pg11027:6:50
# text = The next morning, as they were going through the dark gate, the poor girl looked up at Falada's head, and cried--
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Falada	Falada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | hills *= hill* | the next morning *not said here* |  | the dark gate |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morning=Theme |
| 2 | **look up** | past | the poor girl |  |  |  | morning | at Falada's head | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at head=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the poor girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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