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title: At last came the little dwarf’s turn; and he looked in the moss; but… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last came the little dwarf’s turn; and he looked in the moss; but it was so hard to find the pearls, and the job was so tiresome!--so he sat down upon a stone and cried. Who acts: turn, job. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 19

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At last came the little dwarf’s turn; and he looked in the moss; but it was so hard to find the pearls, and the job was so tiresome!--so he sat down upon a stone and cried.

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**Who acts:** turn, job · **What happens:** come, look, be, find, sit down, cry · **To what, where:** last, pearls, stone

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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 (turn, job), 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:pg2591:36:19
# text = At last came the little dwarf’s turn; and he looked in the moss; but it was so hard to find the pearls, and the job was so tiresome!--so he sat down upon a stone and cried.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	expl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
38	down	down	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	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 | the little dwarf's turn |  |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | turn |  |  |  |  | in the moss | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in moss=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the pearls |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | past | the job |  |  |  |  | tiresome *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sit down** | past | turn |  |  | a stone |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stone=Location |
| 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | turn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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