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title: At last she came to Mother Holle’s house, and as she had heard all a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last she came to Mother Holle’s house, and as she had heard all about the large teeth from her sister, she was not afraid of them, and engaged herself without delay to the old woman. Who acts: girl. 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 41

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At last she came to Mother Holle’s house, and as she had heard all about the large teeth from her sister, she was not afraid of them, and engaged herself without delay to the old woman.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** come, hear, not be, engage · **To what, where:** house, last, girl

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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 (girl), 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:pg2591:22:41
# text = At last she came to Mother Holle’s house, and as she had heard all about the large teeth from her sister, she was not afraid of them, and engaged herself without delay to the old woman.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	without	without	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | girl | Mother's house |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | girl |  |  |  |  | about the large teeth from girl's sister | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about tooth=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | of teeth *= tooth*; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **engage** | past | girl *not said here* | girl |  |  |  | without delay; to the old woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |

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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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