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title: Then an angel from heaven came to her and said: ‘Be at rest, you sha… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then an angel from heaven came to her and said: ‘Be at rest, you shall have a son with the power of wishing, so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for, that shall he have.’ Who acts: angel, rest, power, that. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink, with its dependency tree 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 3

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Then an angel from heaven came to her and said: ‘Be at rest, you shall have a son with the power of wishing, so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for, that shall he have.’

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**Who acts:** angel, rest, power, that · **What happens:** come, say, be, have, wish · **To what, where:** her, rest, son, world · **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 (angel, rest, power, that), 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:pg2591:31:3
# text = Then an angel from heaven came to her and said: ‘Be at rest, you shall have a son with the power of wishing, so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for, that shall he have.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	19	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
39	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a angel from heaven |  | her *= she* |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a angel from heaven *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  | rest |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | shall | rest | a son |  |  |  | with the power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 5 | **wish** | gerund | the power *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **wish** | present | rest | the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot world=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | shall | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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