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title: Then they took a sorrowful leave of each other, and the princess put… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they took a sorrowful leave of each other, and the princess put the lock of her mother's hair into her bosom, got upon her horse, and set off on her journey to her bridegroom's kingdom. Who acts: hands, princess. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl, with its dep
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 6

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Then they took a sorrowful leave of each other, and the princess put the lock of her mother's hair into her bosom, got upon her horse, and set off on her journey to her bridegroom's kingdom.

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**Who acts:** hands, princess · **What happens:** take, put, get, set off, bosom, journey · **To what, where:** sorrowful leave, lock, bosom, journey

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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 (hands, princess), 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:pg11027:6:6
# text = Then they took a sorrowful leave of each other, and the princess put the lock of her mother's hair into her bosom, got upon her horse, and set off on her journey to her bridegroom's kingdom.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	off	off	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	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 | hands *= hand* | a sorrowful leave of each |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | past | the princess | the lock of princess's mother's hair |  | princess's bosom |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lock=Goal |
| 3 | **get** | past | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon princess's horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **set off** | past | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  | princess's journey |  | to princess's bridegroom's kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **bosom** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **journey** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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