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title: And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was a little garden, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits; and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens. Who acts: parlour. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 20

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And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was a little garden, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits; and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens.

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**Who acts:** parlour · **What happens:** be, plant, sort · **To what, where:** cottage, little garden, courtyard, flowers

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parlour), 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:pg2591:11:20
# text = And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was a little garden, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits; and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
39	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a parlour and a bedchamber and a kitchen |  |  | the cottage and a courtyard; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind cottage=Location |
| 2 | **plant** | participle |  | a little garden *not said here* |  |  |  | with all sorts of flowers and fruits | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sort=Instrument |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a parlour and a bedchamber and a kitchen *not said here* | a courtyard |  |  |  | behind *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | flowers and fruits |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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