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title: Then she gave him a cloak, and said, ‘As soon as you put that on you… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she gave him a cloak, and said, ‘As soon as you put that on you will become invisible, and you will then be able to follow the princesses wherever they go.’ Who acts: woman, you, princesses. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency t
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 13

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Then she gave him a cloak, and said, ‘As soon as you put that on you will become invisible, and you will then be able to follow the princesses wherever they go.’

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**Who acts:** woman, you, princesses · **What happens:** give, say, put, become, be, follow · **To what, where:** cloak, king, that, princesses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, you, princesses), 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:pg2591:10:13
# text = Then she gave him a cloak, and said, ‘As soon as you put that on you will become invisible, and you will then be able to follow the princesses wherever they go.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	As	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | woman | a cloak | king |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cloak=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | present | you | that |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent that=Goal |
| 4 | **become** | future | you |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  | then | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **follow** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the princesses |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | present | princesses *= princess* |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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