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title: She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was killed; but when… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was killed; but when the true princess heard of it, she wept, and begged the man to nail up Falada’s head against a large dark gate of the city, through which she had to pass every morning and evening, that there she might still see him sometimes. Who a
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 36

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She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was killed; but when the true princess heard of it, she wept, and begged the man to nail up Falada’s head against a large dark gate of the city, through which she had to pass every morning and evening, that there she might still see him sometimes.

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**Who acts:** Falada, true princess · **What happens:** carry, kill, hear, weep, beg up, have · **To what, where:** point, faithful Falada, head, man

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Falada, true princess), 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:pg2591:15:36
# text = She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was killed; but when the true princess heard of it, she wept, and begged the man to nail up Falada’s head against a large dark gate of the city, through which she had to pass every morning and evening, that there she might still see him sometimes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Falada	Falada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	acl	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
32	Falada	Falada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	against	against	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	through	through	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obl	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	det	_	_
51	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
56	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	60	advmod	_	_
57	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
58	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
59	still	still	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
61	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	_
62	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Falada | Falada's point |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past · passive |  | the faithful Falada |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | participle | the true princess |  |  |  |  | of point | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **weep** | past | Falada |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **beg up** *speech: request* | past | Falada *not said here* | Falada's head | the man |  |  | against a large dark gate of the city | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 6 | **have** | past | Falada |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Falada *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | might | Falada | man |  | there | still | sometimes *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 9 | **point** |  | Falada |  |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition 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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