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title: The King and Queen had just flown out, so he peeped in and saw five… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The King and Queen had just flown out, so he peeped in and saw five or six young ones lying there. Who acts: King, five young ones. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 9

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The King and Queen had just flown out, so he peeped in and saw five or six young ones lying there.

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**Who acts:** King, five young ones · **What happens:** fly out, peep, see, lie · **To what, where:** five young ones

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, five young ones), 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:pg2591:12:9
# text = The King and Queen had just flown out, so he peeped in and saw five or six young ones lying there.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	flown	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
21	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly out** | past · perfect | the King and Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **peep** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | King *not said here* | five young ones |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | five young ones *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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