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title: Then first came two white doves in at the kitchen window; next came… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then first came two white doves in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle-doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and hopping about. Who acts: doves. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 86

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Then first came two white doves in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle-doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and hopping about.

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**Who acts:** doves · **What happens:** come, chirp, hop about · **To what, where:** two white doves, kitchen window, two turtle doves, little birds, heaven

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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 (doves), 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:pg2591:33:86
# text = Then first came two white doves in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle-doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and hopping about.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	next	next	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	chirping	chirp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
34	about	about	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | two white doves |  | the kitchen window | then | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dove=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past |  | two turtle doves |  |  |  | next *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dove=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | doves *= dove* | all little birds |  | heaven |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme |
| 4 | **chirp** | gerund | doves *= dove* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hop about** | gerund | doves *= dove* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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