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title: Prince! prince! take home thy bride, For she is the true one that si… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince! prince! take home thy bride, For she is the true one that sits by thy side!’ Who acts: Prince prince, bride, true one. 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 147

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Prince! prince! take home thy bride, For she is the true one that sits by thy side!’

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**Who acts:** Prince prince, bride, true one · **What happens:** take, be, sit · **To what, where:** bride

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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 prince, bride, true one), 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:pg2591:33:147
# text = Prince! prince! take home thy bride, For she is the true one that sits by thy side!’
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	For	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive | Prince prince |  | thy bride |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | bride |  |  |  |  | for the true one | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | present | the true one |  |  |  |  | by thy side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |

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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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