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title: The nurse asked in the morning of the guards if any one had passed i… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The nurse asked in the morning of the guards if any one had passed into the castle during the night; but they answered, "No, we have not seen anybody." Who acts: nurse, one, guards, we. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 61

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The nurse asked in the morning of the guards if any one had passed into the castle during the night; but they answered, "No, we have not seen anybody."

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**Who acts:** nurse, one, guards, we · **What happens:** ask, pass, answer, not see · **To what, where:** castle, anybody · **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 (nurse, one, guards, we), 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:pg11027:7:61
# text = The nurse asked in the morning of the guards if any one had passed into the castle during the night; but they answered, "No, we have not seen anybody."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	32	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
33	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the nurse |  |  |  | morning |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | any one |  |  | the castle | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | guards *= guard* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | anybody |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Stimulus |

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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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