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title: As soon, therefore, as she heard how happy they had become, and how… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon, therefore, as she heard how happy they had become, and how everything prospered with them, envy and jealousy were aroused in her wicked heart, and left her no peace; and she was always thinking in what way she could bring misfortune upon them. Who acts: Sister, children, everything, way. A 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 51

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As soon, therefore, as she heard how happy they had become, and how everything prospered with them, envy and jealousy were aroused in her wicked heart, and left her no peace; and she was always thinking in what way she could bring misfortune upon them.

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**Who acts:** Sister, children, everything, way · **What happens:** hear, become, prosper, arouse, leave, think · **To what, where:** envy, wicked heart, peace, misfortune · **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, children, everything, way), 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:pg11027:7:51
# text = As soon, therefore, as she heard how happy they had become, and how everything prospered with them, envy and jealousy were aroused in her wicked heart, and left her no peace; and she was always thinking in what way she could bring misfortune upon them.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
18	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	42	advmod	_	_
42	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
45	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	parataxis	_	_
49	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Sister |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **prosper** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | with children *= child* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **arouse** | past · passive |  | envy and jealousy |  | Sister's wicked heart |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **leave** | past | Sister *not said here* | Sister's peace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Sister |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **bring** | could | way | misfortune |  |  |  | upon children *= child* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent misfortune=Theme |
| 8 | **pacify** |  | Sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state 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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