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title: Then she looked for leaves and moss to make a soft couch for the Faw… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she looked for leaves and moss to make a soft couch for the Fawn, and every morning she went out and collected roots and berries and nuts for herself, and tender grass for the Fawn. Who acts: Sister. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister, with its d
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 21

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Then she looked for leaves and moss to make a soft couch for the Fawn, and every morning she went out and collected roots and berries and nuts for herself, and tender grass for the Fawn.

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**Who acts:** Sister · **What happens:** look, make, go out, collect · **To what, where:** soft couch, roots

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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 (Sister), 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:pg11027:7:21
# text = Then she looked for leaves and moss to make a soft couch for the Fawn, and every morning she went out and collected roots and berries and nuts for herself, and tender grass for the Fawn.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Fawn	Fawn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Fawn	Fawn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Sister |  |  |  | then | for leaves and moss | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for leaf=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Sister *not said here* | a soft couch |  |  |  | for the Fawn | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent couch=Material for fawn=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **go out** | past | Sister |  |  |  | morning | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **collect** | past | Sister *not said here* | roots and berries and nuts |  |  |  | for Sister | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |

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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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