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title: When he had gone away, she had a little hind brought to her, and ord… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had gone away, she had a little hind brought to her, and ordered her to be killed, and took her heart and tongue, and laid them on a plate, and when she saw the old man coming, she said to the boy: ‘Lie down in your bed, and draw the clothes over you.’ Who acts: cook, thought, little hind, o
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 22

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When he had gone away, she had a little hind brought to her, and ordered her to be killed, and took her heart and tongue, and laid them on a plate, and when she saw the old man coming, she said to the boy: ‘Lie down in your bed, and draw the clothes over you.’

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**Who acts:** cook, thought, little hind, old man · **What happens:** go away, have, bring, order, kill, take · **To what, where:** thought, heart, hearts, plate, old man, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cook, thought, little hind, old man), 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:pg2591:31:22
# text = When he had gone away, she had a little hind brought to her, and ordered her to be killed, and took her heart and tongue, and laid them on a plate, and when she saw the old man coming, she said to the boy: ‘Lie down in your bed, and draw the clothes over you.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hind	hind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
52	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	Lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	ccomp	_	_
54	down	down	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	conj	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	60	obj	_	_
63	over	over	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past · perfect | cook |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | thought |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | past | a little hind |  | thought |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination |
| 4 | **order** | past | thought *not said here* |  | thought |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | thought *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 6 | **take** | past | thought *not said here* | thought's heart and tongue |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 7 | **lay** | past | thought *not said here* | hearts *= heart* |  | a plate |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on plate=Destination |
| 8 | **see** | past | thought | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 9 | **come** | gerund | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thought |  |  |  |  | to the boy | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to boy=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 11 | **lie down** | infinitive |  |  |  | your bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 12 | **draw** | infinitive |  | the clothes |  |  |  | over you | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |

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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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