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title: Hereupon she was terrified, and said: ‘Ah, heavens! — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hereupon she was terrified, and said: ‘Ah, heavens! Who acts: Hereupon. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 54

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Hereupon she was terrified, and said: ‘Ah, heavens!

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**Who acts:** Hereupon · **What happens:** be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hereupon), 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:pg2591:32:54
# text = Hereupon she was terrified, and said: ‘Ah, heavens!
1	Hereupon	Hereupon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Hereupon |  |  |  |  | terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hereupon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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