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title: The lazy girl was delighted at this, and thought to herself, ‘The go… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The lazy girl was delighted at this, and thought to herself, ‘The gold will soon be mine.’ Who acts: lazy girl, gold. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 46

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The lazy girl was delighted at this, and thought to herself, ‘The gold will soon be mine.’

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**Who acts:** lazy girl, gold · **What happens:** be, think · **To what, where:** this, girl, mine

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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 (lazy girl, gold), 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:pg2591:22:46
# text = The lazy girl was delighted at this, and thought to herself, ‘The gold will soon be mine.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the lazy girl |  |  | this |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | the lazy girl *not said here* |  | girl |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | future | the gold | mine |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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