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title: And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all size… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all sizes, the greatest as large as the highest and biggest tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rushlight. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife, with its dependency tree and the
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 97

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And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all sizes, the greatest as large as the highest and biggest tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rushlight.

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**What happens:** be

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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: 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:pg2591:11:97
# text = And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all sizes, the greatest as large as the highest and biggest tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rushlight.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nsubj	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	nsubj	_	_
35	no	no	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	rushlight	rushlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of Ilsabill's two rows; of burning lights and all sizes | tree rules |

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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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