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title: She was prettier than all the pretty girls that ever were seen befor… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was prettier than all the pretty girls that ever were seen before, and a shepherd lad, whose name was Jorindel, was very fond of her, and they were soon to be married. Who acts: seven hundred, name, shepherd lad, Jorindel. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel,
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 7

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She was prettier than all the pretty girls that ever were seen before, and a shepherd lad, whose name was Jorindel, was very fond of her, and they were soon to be married.

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**Who acts:** seven hundred, name, shepherd lad, Jorindel · **What happens:** be, see, marry, name · **To what, where:** pretty girls, Jorindel, girls

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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, name, shepherd lad, Jorindel), 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:pg2591:4:7
# text = She was prettier than all the pretty girls that ever were seen before, and a shepherd lad, whose name was Jorindel, was very fond of her, and they were soon to be married.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	Jorindel	Jorindel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
34	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | seven hundred *= hundred* |  |  |  |  | than all pretty girls; pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | all pretty girls |  |  | ever | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Jorindel's name | Jorindel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | a shepherd lad |  |  |  |  | of seven hundred *= hundred*; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** | past · passive |  | girls *= girl* |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **name** |  | Jorindel |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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