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title: As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat wi… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat with the youngest princess and the soldier said, ‘I do not know why it is, but though I am rowing with all my might we do not get on so fast as usual, and I am quite tired: the boat seems very heavy today.’ Who acts: princesses, princ
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 35

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As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat with the youngest princess and the soldier said, ‘I do not know why it is, but though I am rowing with all my might we do not get on so fast as usual, and I am quite tired: the boat seems very heavy today.’

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**Who acts:** princesses, prince, soldier, I, we, boat · **What happens:** row, be, say, not know, not get on, seem · **To what, where:** lake, boat, my · **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 (princesses, prince, soldier, I), 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:pg2591:10:35
# text = As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat with the youngest princess and the soldier said, ‘I do not know why it is, but though I am rowing with all my might we do not get on so fast as usual, and I am quite tired: the boat seems very heavy today.’
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rowing	row	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
30	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	rowing	row	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
41	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
42	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
43	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	_
47	on	on	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
54	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	61	punct	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
61	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	conj	_	_
62	very	very	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **row** | past · progressive | princesses *= princess* |  |  | the lake |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over lake=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | the prince |  |  | the boat |  | with the youngest princess | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | present | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **row** | present · progressive | I | my |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **get on** | might · do-support | we |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **seem** | present | the boat |  |  |  | today |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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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