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title: But when she was led in she ate nothing, and said: ‘The gracious and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when she was led in she ate nothing, and said: ‘The gracious and merciful God who has supported me in the tower, will soon set me free.’ Who acts: dog. 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 61

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But when she was led in she ate nothing, and said: ‘The gracious and merciful God who has supported me in the tower, will soon set me free.’

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** lead in, eat, say, support, set · **To what, where:** dog, nothing, gracious God, tower, me · **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 (dog), 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:pg2591:31:61
# text = But when she was led in she ate nothing, and said: ‘The gracious and merciful God who has supported me in the tower, will soon set me free.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	merciful	merciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead in** | past · passive |  | dog |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | past | dog | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **support** | present · perfect · passive |  | the gracious God |  | the tower |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **set** | future |  | me |  |  |  | free, soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |

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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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