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title: When the queen heard this she jumped for joy, and as soon as her lit… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the queen heard this she jumped for joy, and as soon as her little friend came she sat down upon her throne, and called all her court round to enjoy the fun; and the nurse stood by her side with the baby in her arms, as if it was quite ready to be given up. Who acts: queen, little friend, frien
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 145

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When the queen heard this she jumped for joy, and as soon as her little friend came she sat down upon her throne, and called all her court round to enjoy the fun; and the nurse stood by her side with the baby in her arms, as if it was quite ready to be given up.

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**Who acts:** queen, little friend, friend, nurse, it · **What happens:** hear, jump, come, sit down, call, enjoy · **To what, where:** this, throne, court, fun, arms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, little friend, friend, nurse), 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:pg2591:25:145
# text = When the queen heard this she jumped for joy, and as soon as her little friend came she sat down upon her throne, and called all her court round to enjoy the fun; and the nurse stood by her side with the baby in her arms, as if it was quite ready to be given up.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
31	round	round	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
52	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
55	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	advcl	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
58	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	xcomp	_	_
60	up	up	ADP	RP	_	59	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the queen | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **jump** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | queen's little friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | friend |  |  | queen's throne |  | down, soon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location |
| 5 | **call** | past | friend *not said here* | queen's court |  |  |  | round *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | friend *not said here* | the fun |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fun=Stimulus |
| 7 | **stand** | past | the nurse |  |  | queen's arms |  | by queen's side; with the baby | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 8 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **give up** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V» |

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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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