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title: The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble tabl… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table, where there were three tablets, containing an account of the means by which the castle might be disenchanted. Who acts: man, the. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee, with its dependency tree and the
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 15

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The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table, where there were three tablets, containing an account of the means by which the castle might be disenchanted.

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**Who acts:** man, the · **What happens:** come, take, be, contain, mean, disenchant · **To what, where:** eldest, man, three tablets, account, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, the), 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:pg2591:36:15
# text = The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table, where there were three tablets, containing an account of the means by which the castle might be disenchanted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	nsubj	_	_
28	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	disenchanted	disenchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | man |  |  | the eldest | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to eld=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | man *not said here* |  | man |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | three tablets |  |  |  | to a marble table | tree rules |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | man *not said here* | a account |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot account=Theme |
| 5 | **mean** | present | the | a account *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **disenchant** | might · passive |  | the castle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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