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title: Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter. Who acts: she. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 2

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Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter.

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**Who acts:** she · **What happens:** go, pray, bestow · **To what, where:** garden, God, heaven, son

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she), 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:pg2591:31:2
# text = Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | she |  |  | the garden | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pray** | past | she *not said here* |  | God | heaven |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **bestow** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | a son or a daughter |  |  |  | on her *= she* | 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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