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title: In the morning the soldier said nothing about what had happened, but… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning the soldier said nothing about what had happened, but determined to see more of this strange adventure, and went again the second and third night; and every thing happened just as before; the princesses danced each time till their shoes were worn to pieces, and then returned home. Who
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 43

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In the morning the soldier said nothing about what had happened, but determined to see more of this strange adventure, and went again the second and third night; and every thing happened just as before; the princesses danced each time till their shoes were worn to pieces, and then returned home.

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**Who acts:** soldier, thing, princesses · **What happens:** say, happen, see, go, dance, wear · **To what, where:** nothing, more, shoes · **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 (soldier, thing, 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:pg2591:10:43
# text = In the morning the soldier said nothing about what had happened, but determined to see more of this strange adventure, and went again the second and third night; and every thing happened just as before; the princesses danced each time till their shoes were worn to pieces, and then returned home.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
8	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	conj	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
36	just	just	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	before	before	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
43	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
44	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	advcl	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	55	advmod	_	_
55	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
56	home	home	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the soldier | nothing |  |  | morning |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the soldier *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past | the soldier *not said here* |  |  |  | again; night |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **happen** | past | every thing |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **dance** | past | the princesses |  |  |  | time |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **wear** | past · passive |  | princesses's shoes |  |  |  | to pieces | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **return** | past | the princesses *not said here* |  |  |  | then | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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