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title: The Sister opened it, saying, "Return at evening, mind, and say the… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sister opened it, saying, "Return at evening, mind, and say the words as before." Who acts: Sister. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 32

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The Sister opened it, saying, "Return at evening, mind, and say the words as before."

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**Who acts:** Sister · **What happens:** open, say · **To what, where:** door, Return, words · **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 (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:pg11027:7:32
# text = The Sister opened it, saying, "Return at evening, mind, and say the words as before."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sister	Sister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the Sister | door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Sister *not said here* | Return and mind |  |  | at evening |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the words |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

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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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