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title: At last it fell out in this wise: one of the chambermaids said to th… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: At last it fell out in this wise: one of the chambermaids said to the Princess, "Let me bring in my aid to teach him what shivering is." Who acts: last, chambermaids, shivering. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 170

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At last it fell out in this wise: one of the chambermaids said to the Princess, "Let me bring in my aid to teach him what shivering is."

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**Who acts:** last, chambermaids, shivering · **What happens:** fall out, say, let, bring, teach, be · **To what, where:** wise, one, Princess, chambermaids, aid, contentment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (last, chambermaids, shivering), 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:pg11027:9:170
# text = At last it fell out in this wise: one of the chambermaids said to the Princess, "Let me bring in my aid to teach him what shivering is."
1	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chambermaids	chambermaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
30	shivering	shivering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall out** | past | last |  |  | wise |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wise=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the chambermaids | one | the Princess |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the chambermaids *= chambermaid* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | the chambermaids *= chambermaid* *not said here* |  |  | my aid |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the chambermaids *= chambermaid* *not said here* |  | contentment |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | shivering |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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