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description: Now it so happened that on this very day the queen lost her most beautiful ring, and suspicion of having stolen it fell upon this trusty servant, who was allowed to go everywhere. Who acts: it, queen, suspicion, trusty servant. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake, wit
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 11

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Now it so happened that on this very day the queen lost her most beautiful ring, and suspicion of having stolen it fell upon this trusty servant, who was allowed to go everywhere.

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**Who acts:** it, queen, suspicion, trusty servant · **What happens:** happen, lose, steal, fall, allow, go · **To what, where:** her, suspicion, trusty servant

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, queen, suspicion, trusty servant), 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:pg2591:34:11
# text = Now it so happened that on this very day the queen lost her most beautiful ring, and suspicion of having stolen it fell upon this trusty servant, who was allowed to go everywhere.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	aux	_	_
22	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | past | the queen | her *= she* |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **steal** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | suspicion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | past | suspicion |  |  | this trusty servant |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon servant=Location |
| 5 | **allow** | past · passive |  | this trusty servant |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this trusty servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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