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title: But the mother and both the sisters were frightened, and turned pale… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the mother and both the sisters were frightened, and turned pale with anger as he took Ashputtel on his horse, and rode away with her. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 143

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But the mother and both the sisters were frightened, and turned pale with anger as he took Ashputtel on his horse, and rode away with her.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** frighten, turn, take, ride away · **To what, where:** mother, Ashputtel

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg2591:33:143
# text = But the mother and both the sisters were frightened, and turned pale with anger as he took Ashputtel on his horse, and rode away with her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	Ashputtel	Ashputtel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | the mother and both sisters |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **turn** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with anger; pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | prince | Ashputtel |  |  |  | on prince's horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ashputtel=Theme on horse=Destination |
| 4 | **ride away** | past | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with mother; away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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