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title: After waiting awhile, she went to Mother Holle and said, ‘I am so ho… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After waiting awhile, she went to Mother Holle and said, ‘I am so homesick, that I cannot stay with you any longer, for although I am so happy here, I must return to my own people.’ Who acts: woman, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree and the
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 23

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After waiting awhile, she went to Mother Holle and said, ‘I am so homesick, that I cannot stay with you any longer, for although I am so happy here, I must return to my own people.’

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**Who acts:** woman, I · **What happens:** wait, go, say, be, not stay, return · **To what, where:** Mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I), 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:pg2591:22:23
# text = After waiting awhile, she went to Mother Holle and said, ‘I am so homesick, that I cannot stay with you any longer, for although I am so happy here, I must return to my own people.’
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	homesick	homesick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	any	any	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
35	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awhile *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | woman |  | Mother |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | homesick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **stay** | can | I |  |  |  |  | with you; long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location |
| 6 | **is** | present | I |  |  | here |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **return** | must | I |  |  |  |  | to my own people *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result |

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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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