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title: Soon after this, little Marleen came up to her mother who was stirri… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after this, little Marleen came up to her mother who was stirring a pot of boiling water over the fire, and said, ‘Mother, brother is sitting by the door with an apple in his hand, and he looks so pale; and when I asked him to give me the apple, he did not answer, and that frightened me.’ Who a
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 35

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Soon after this, little Marleen came up to her mother who was stirring a pot of boiling water over the fire, and said, ‘Mother, brother is sitting by the door with an apple in his hand, and he looks so pale; and when I asked him to give me the apple, he did not answer, and that frightened me.’

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**Who acts:** little Marleen, mother, brother, Marleen, I, that · **What happens:** come up, stir, boil, say, sit, look · **To what, where:** pot, fire, Mother, hand, Marleen, apple · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Marleen, mother, brother, Marleen), 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:pg2591:38:35
# text = Soon after this, little Marleen came up to her mother who was stirring a pot of boiling water over the fire, and said, ‘Mother, brother is sitting by the door with an apple in his hand, and he looks so pale; and when I asked him to give me the apple, he did not answer, and that frightened me.’
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	iobj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
56	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	iobj	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
60	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
61	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
62	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	63	advmod	_	_
63	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
66	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	67	nsubj	_	_
67	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
68	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	67	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	67	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | little Marleen |  |  |  |  | to thought's mother; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stir** | past · progressive | thought's mother | a pot of boiling water |  | the fire |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pot=Experiencer |
| 3 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | little Marleen *not said here* | Mother |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sit** | present · progressive | brother |  |  | brother's hand |  | by the door; with a apple | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location |
| 6 | **look** | present | Marleen |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | I |  | Marleen |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the apple | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient apple=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Marleen |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **frighten** | past | that | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |

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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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