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title: He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights. Who acts: voice, spiteful fairy. A senten
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 39

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He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.

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**Who acts:** voice, spiteful fairy · **What happens:** tell, enchant, change, fate, abide, take · **To what, where:** princess, voice, plate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (voice, spiteful fairy), 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:pg2591:13:39
# text = He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	fated	fate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
31	till	till	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
52	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
57	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | voice |  | princess |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **enchant** | past · perfect · passive | a spiteful fairy | voice |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **change** | past · perfect | a spiteful fairy | voice |  |  |  | into a frog *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into frog=Result |
| 4 | **fate** | past · perfect · passive |  | voice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **abide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | till some princess |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | should |  |  | voice |  | night; spring | sleep upon princess's bed *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive |  | voice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **eat** | infinitive | voice *not said here* |  |  | princess's plate |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from plate=Source |

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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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