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title: There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep glo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy. Who acts: old castle. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 1

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There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.

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**Who acts:** old castle · **What happens:** be, stand, live · **To what, where:** middle, old fairy, castle

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old castle), 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:pg2591:4:1
# text = There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a old castle |  |  | there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a old castle |  |  | the middle of a deep gloomy wood |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
| 3 | **live** | past | a old castle *not said here* | a old fairy |  | the castle |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fairy=Location |

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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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