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title: Then there arose a quarrel between them; and the star-gazer said, ‘I… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there arose a quarrel between them; and the star-gazer said, ‘If I had not found the princess out, all your skill would have been of no use; therefore she ought to be mine.’ Who acts: star gazer, I, skill. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers, with its de
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 49

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Then there arose a quarrel between them; and the star-gazer said, ‘If I had not found the princess out, all your skill would have been of no use; therefore she ought to be mine.’

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**Who acts:** star gazer, I, skill · **What happens:** arise, say, not find out, be · **To what, where:** quarrel, princess, mine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star gazer, I, skill), 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:pg2591:43:49
# text = Then there arose a quarrel between them; and the star-gazer said, ‘If I had not found the princess out, all your skill would have been of no use; therefore she ought to be mine.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	gazer	gazer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
41	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past |  | a quarrel |  | there | then | between stitches *= stitch* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quarrel=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the star gazer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **find out** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | I | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | would · perfect | your skill |  |  |  |  | of no use | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | mine |  |  |  |  | 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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