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title: Then he touched all the other birds with the flower, so that they al… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he touched all the other birds with the flower, so that they all took their old forms again; and he took Jorinda home, where they were married, and lived happily together many years: and so did a good many other lads, whose maidens had been forced to sing in the old fairy’s cages by themselves,
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 50

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Then he touched all the other birds with the flower, so that they all took their old forms again; and he took Jorinda home, where they were married, and lived happily together many years: and so did a good many other lads, whose maidens had been forced to sing in the old fairy’s cages by themselves, much longer than they liked.

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**Who acts:** spell, arms, maidens · **What happens:** touch, take, marry, live, do, force · **To what, where:** other birds, old forms, Jorinda, arms, good many other lads, maidens

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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, arms, maidens), 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:pg2591:4:50
# text = Then he touched all the other birds with the flower, so that they all took their old forms again; and he took Jorinda home, where they were married, and lived happily together many years: and so did a good many other lads, whose maidens had been forced to sing in the old fairy’s cages by themselves, much longer than they liked.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	Jorinda	Jorinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	home	home	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	together	together	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
44	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
45	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl:relcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	’s	's	PART	POS	_	59	case	_	_
61	cages	cage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
62	by	by	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
65	much	much	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
66	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	_
67	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
68	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	_
69	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | spell | all other birds |  |  | then | with the flower | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bird=Experiencer with flower=Instrument |
| 2 | **take** | past | arms *= arm* | arms's old forms |  |  | again |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | spell |  | Jorinda |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument jorinda=Destination |
| 4 | **marry** | past · passive |  | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **live** | past | spell *not said here* |  |  |  | year | happily, together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | past | spell *not said here* | a good many other lads |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality |
| 7 | **force** | past · perfect · passive |  | maidens |  |  |  | long *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | maidens *not said here* |  |  | the old fairy's cages |  | by arms *= arm* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cage=Location |
| 9 | **like** | past | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 10 | **form** |  | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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