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title: The bridegroom sat at the top, with the false princess on one side,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The bridegroom sat at the top, with the false princess on one side, and the true one on the other; but nobody knew her, for she was quite dazzling to their eyes, and was not at all like the little goose-girl, now that she had on her brilliant dress. Who acts: bridegroom, nobody, girl. A sentence of 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 84

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The bridegroom sat at the top, with the false princess on one side, and the true one on the other; but nobody knew her, for she was quite dazzling to their eyes, and was not at all like the little goose-girl, now that she had on her brilliant dress.

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**Who acts:** bridegroom, nobody, girl · **What happens:** sit, know, dazzle, have · **To what, where:** top, bridegroom, brilliant dress

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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 (bridegroom, nobody, 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:pg11027:6:84
# text = The bridegroom sat at the top, with the false princess on one side, and the true one on the other; but nobody knew her, for she was quite dazzling to their eyes, and was not at all like the little goose-girl, now that she had on her brilliant dress.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
26	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	conj	_	_
43	like	like	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
45	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
46	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the bridegroom |  |  | the top |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at top=Location |
| 2 | **know** | past | nobody | bridegroom |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dazzle** | past · progressive | bridegroom |  |  |  |  | to tears's eyes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | past | girl |  |  | girl's brilliant dress | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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