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title: When the seed came up, there was one plant bigger than all the rest;… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the seed came up, there was one plant bigger than all the rest; and it kept getting larger and larger, and seemed as if it would never cease growing; so that it might have been called the prince of turnips for there never was such a one seen before, and never will again. Who acts: seed, plant. 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 3

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When the seed came up, there was one plant bigger than all the rest; and it kept getting larger and larger, and seemed as if it would never cease growing; so that it might have been called the prince of turnips for there never was such a one seen before, and never will again.

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**Who acts:** seed, plant · **What happens:** come up, be, get, seem, not cease, grow · **To what, where:** plant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seed, plant), 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:pg2591:39:3
# text = When the seed came up, there was one plant bigger than all the rest; and it kept getting larger and larger, and seemed as if it would never cease growing; so that it might have been called the prince of turnips for there never was such a one seen before, and never will again.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
33	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	41	advmod	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux	_	_
40	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	xcomp	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	turnips	turnip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	obl	_	_
48	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
50	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	58	det:predet	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
52	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nsubj	_	_
53	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	_
54	before	before	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
59	again	again	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | the seed |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | plant |  |  |  |  | keep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | plant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **not** **cease** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | plant |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund | plant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **call** | might · perfect · passive |  | plant |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for there=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **see** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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