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title: It was a beautiful evening; the last rays of the setting sun shone b… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a beautiful evening; the last rays of the setting sun shone bright through the long stems of the trees upon the green underwood beneath, and the turtle-doves sang from the tall birches. Who acts: name, last rays, turtle doves. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jo
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 9

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It was a beautiful evening; the last rays of the setting sun shone bright through the long stems of the trees upon the green underwood beneath, and the turtle-doves sang from the tall birches.

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**Who acts:** name, last rays, turtle doves · **What happens:** be, shine, sing, ray, stem · **To what, where:** beautiful evening, long stems, tall birches, setting sun, trees

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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 (name, last rays, turtle doves), 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:pg2591:4:9
# text = It was a beautiful evening; the last rays of the setting sun shone bright through the long stems of the trees upon the green underwood beneath, and the turtle-doves sang from the tall birches.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	underwood	underwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	birches	birch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | name | a beautiful evening |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | past | the last rays of the setting sun |  |  | the long stems of the trees upon the green underwood |  | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through stem=Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the turtle doves |  |  | the tall birches |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ray** |  |  | the setting sun |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **stem** |  |  | the trees upon the green underwood |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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