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title: But Marleen stood looking on, and wept and wept, and her tears fell… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Marleen stood looking on, and wept and wept, and her tears fell into the pot, so that there was no need of salt. Who acts: Marleen, tears, need. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 42

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But Marleen stood looking on, and wept and wept, and her tears fell into the pot, so that there was no need of salt.

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**Who acts:** Marleen, tears, need · **What happens:** stand, look on, weep, fall, be, need · **To what, where:** pot, salt

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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 (Marleen, tears, need), 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:pg2591:38:42
# text = But Marleen stood looking on, and wept and wept, and her tears fell into the pot, so that there was no need of salt.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Marleen |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look on** | gerund | Marleen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **weep** | past | Marleen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **weep** | past | Marleen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fall** | past | thought's tears |  |  |  |  | into the pot *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pot=Result |
| 6 | **be** | past | no need of salt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **need** |  |  | salt |  |  |  |  | nom need «state 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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