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title: Just as they reached the third brook, the Sister heard the voice say… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as they reached the third brook, the Sister heard the voice saying, "Who drinks of me will become a fawn--who drinks of me will become a fawn!" Who acts: pieces, Sister, saying, fawn. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree a
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 15

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Just as they reached the third brook, the Sister heard the voice saying, "Who drinks of me will become a fawn--who drinks of me will become a fawn!"

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**Who acts:** pieces, Sister, saying, fawn · **What happens:** reach, hear, say, drink, become · **To what, where:** third brook, voice, fawn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, Sister, saying, fawn), 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:pg11027:7:15
# text = Just as they reached the third brook, the Sister heard the voice saying, "Who drinks of me will become a fawn--who drinks of me will become a fawn!"
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | pieces *= piece* | the third brook |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent brook=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the Sister | the voice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of i=Source |
| 5 | **become** *in a quote* | future | saying |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **drink** *in a quote* | present | a fawn |  |  |  |  | of me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of i=Source |
| 7 | **become** *in a quote* | future | a fawn | a fawn |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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