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title: There is the tree where seven fellows have married the hempen maid,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: There is the tree where seven fellows have married the hempen maid, and now swing to and fro. Who acts: tree. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 50

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There is the tree where seven fellows have married the hempen maid, and now swing to and fro.

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** be, marry, swing, fro · **To what, where:** seven fellows

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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 (tree), 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:pg11027:9:50
# text = There is the tree where seven fellows have married the hempen maid, and now swing to and fro.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hempen	hempen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	swing	swing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fro	fro	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | the tree |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** | present · perfect · passive |  | seven fellows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swing** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **fro** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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