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title: At this, too, the youngest sister was terribly frightened, but the e… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At this, too, the youngest sister was terribly frightened, but the eldest always silenced her. Who acts: eldest. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 39

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At this, too, the youngest sister was terribly frightened, but the eldest always silenced her.

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**Who acts:** eldest · **What happens:** frighten, silence · **To what, where:** this, woman

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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 (eldest), 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:pg2591:10:39
# text = At this, too, the youngest sister was terribly frightened, but the eldest always silenced her.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	nsubj	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	silenced	silence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  | terribly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **silence** | past | the eldest | woman |  |  |  | always *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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