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title: There were seven hundred of these cages hanging in the castle, and a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were seven hundred of these cages hanging in the castle, and all with beautiful birds in them. Who acts: seven hundred, cages. 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 5

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There were seven hundred of these cages hanging in the castle, and all with beautiful birds in them.

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**Who acts:** seven hundred, cages · **What happens:** be, hang · **To what, where:** 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 (seven hundred, cages), 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:pg2591:4:5
# text = There were seven hundred of these cages hanging in the castle, and all with beautiful birds in them.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	cages	cage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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 | seven hundred of this cages |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | this cages *not said here* |  |  | the castle |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=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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