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title: The youth sat down in the garden and considered how it might be poss… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth sat down in the garden and considered how it might be possible to perform this task, but he could think of nothing, and there he sat sorrowfully awaiting the break of day, when he should be led to death. Who acts: youth, it. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Sna
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 47

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The youth sat down in the garden and considered how it might be possible to perform this task, but he could think of nothing, and there he sat sorrowfully awaiting the break of day, when he should be led to death.

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**Who acts:** youth, it · **What happens:** sit down, consider, be, perform, think, sit · **To what, where:** garden, task, break, youth, death, day

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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 (youth, it), 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:pg2591:34:47
# text = The youth sat down in the garden and considered how it might be possible to perform this task, but he could think of nothing, and there he sat sorrowfully awaiting the break of day, when he should be led to death.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | the youth |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location |
| 2 | **consider** | past | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | might | it |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **perform** | to-infinitive |  | this task |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | could | youth |  |  |  |  | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sit** | past | youth |  |  | there |  | sorrowfully *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **await** | gerund | youth *not said here* | the break of day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **lead** | should · passive |  | youth |  | death |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to death=Destination |
| 9 | **break** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom break «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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