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title: ‘Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here! — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here! Who acts: you, thy. 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 34

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‘Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here!

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**Who acts:** you, thy · **What happens:** open, love · **To what, where:** door, true love

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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 (you, thy), 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:pg2591:13:34
# text = ‘Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | the door |  |  |  | my princess *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the door | thy true love | here |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to love=Recipient |
| 3 | **love** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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