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title: So the gold was fetched, and the wedding was celebrated, but the you… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So the gold was fetched, and the wedding was celebrated, but the young Prince (for the youth was a Prince now), notwithstanding his love for his bride, and his great contentment, was still continually crying, "If I could but shiver! if I could but shiver!" Who acts: great contentment, Prince. A sent
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 169

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So the gold was fetched, and the wedding was celebrated, but the young Prince (for the youth was a Prince now), notwithstanding his love for his bride, and his great contentment, was still continually crying, "If I could but shiver! if I could but shiver!"

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**Who acts:** great contentment, Prince · **What happens:** fetch, celebrate, be, notwithstand, cry, love · **To what, where:** gold, wedding, Prince, love

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great contentment, Prince), 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:pg11027:9:169
# text = So the gold was fetched, and the wedding was celebrated, but the young Prince (for the youth was a Prince now), notwithstanding his love for his bride, and his great contentment, was still continually crying, "If I could but shiver! if I could but shiver!"
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	contentment	contentment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	still	still	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
51	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | past · passive |  | the gold |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | the wedding |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **notwithstand** | gerund |  | Prince's love |  |  |  | for Prince's bride | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Prince's great contentment |  |  |  | still | continually *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **love** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **content** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom contentment «feeling 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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