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description: Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree, and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast. Who acts: friend, bird. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependenc
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 93

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Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree, and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast.

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**Who acts:** friend, bird · **What happens:** fly out, bring, spangle, put on, follow · **To what, where:** tree, gold, slippers, sisters, feast

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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 (friend, bird), 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:pg2591:33:93
# text = Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree, and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	spangled	spangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly out** | past | ASHPUTTEL's friend | the tree |  |  | then | slippers of spangled silk *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | ASHPUTTEL's friend *not said here* | a gold and silver dress |  |  |  | for ASHPUTTEL | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 3 | **spangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put on** | past | bird | slippers *= slipper* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
| 5 | **follow** | past | ASHPUTTEL's friend *not said here* | ASHPUTTEL's sisters |  | the feast |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sister=Theme to feast=Trajectory |

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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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