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title: And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, an… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, and put him upon the pillow of her own bed, where he slept all night long. Who acts: princess, father. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog-prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 30

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And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, and put him upon the pillow of her own bed, where he slept all night long.

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**Who acts:** princess, father · **What happens:** take up, put, sleep · **To what, where:** father, hand, pillow

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog-prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, father), 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:pg2591:13:30
# text = And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, and put him upon the pillow of her own bed, where he slept all night long.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | the princess | father |  | princess's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | the princess *not said here* | father |  | the pillow of princess's own bed |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon pillow=Destination |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | father |  |  |  | night | long *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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