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title: In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morning, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl. Who acts:
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 40

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In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morning, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.

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**Who acts:** spell, eight long days · **What happens:** awake, begin, search, seek, find, be · **To what, where:** hill, vain, beautiful purple flower, large dewdrop, middle

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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 (spell, eight long days), 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:pg2591:4:40
# text = In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morning, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
47	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	dewdrop	dewdrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	as	as	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
63	as	as	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
65	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | spell |  |  |  | morning |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | spell |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **search** | to-infinitive | spell *not said here* |  |  | hill and dale |  | for this pretty flower | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent over hill=Location for flower=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | past | eight long days |  |  | vain |  | for flower | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme in vain=Location |
| 5 | **find** | past | spell | the beautiful purple flower |  |  | day |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | a large dewdrop |  | the middle |  | of flower | tree rules |

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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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