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title: It was not long before the witch came striding up towards them, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not long before the witch came striding up towards them, and said to the musician: ‘Dear musician, may I pluck that beautiful flower for myself?’ Who acts: flower, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 33

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It was not long before the witch came striding up towards them, and said to the musician: ‘Dear musician, may I pluck that beautiful flower for myself?’

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**Who acts:** flower, I · **What happens:** not be, come, stride up, say, pluck · **To what, where:** Dear musician, musician, beautiful flower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, 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:pg2591:30:33
# text = It was not long before the witch came striding up towards them, and said to the musician: ‘Dear musician, may I pluck that beautiful flower for myself?’
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	striding	stride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | flower |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past |  | Dear musician |  |  | before the witch |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stride up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | towards breadcrumbs *= breadcrumb* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the musician |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to musician=Recipient |
| 5 | **pluck** | may | I | that beautiful flower |  |  |  | for myself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for myself=Beneficiary |

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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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