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title: Then she began to be glad, and thought to herself that the time was… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she began to be glad, and thought to herself that the time was fast coming when all her troubles should end; yet repose was still far off, for one day as she was travelling on she missed the white feather, and when she lifted up her eyes she could nowhere see the dove. Who acts: Lily, troubles,
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 37

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Then she began to be glad, and thought to herself that the time was fast coming when all her troubles should end; yet repose was still far off, for one day as she was travelling on she missed the white feather, and when she lifted up her eyes she could nowhere see the dove.

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**Who acts:** Lily, troubles, repose · **What happens:** begin, be, think, come, end, travel · **To what, where:** Lily, white feather, eyes, dove

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lily, troubles, repose), 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:pg2591:44:37
# text = Then she began to be glad, and thought to herself that the time was fast coming when all her troubles should end; yet repose was still far off, for one day as she was travelling on she missed the white feather, and when she lifted up her eyes she could nowhere see the dove.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
17	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	repose	repose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
39	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	parataxis	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Lily |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | Lily *not said here* |  | Lily |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  | time | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **end** | should | Lily's troubles |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is** | past | repose |  |  |  | still; day | far, off *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **travel** | past · progressive | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **miss** | past | Lily | the white feather |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus |
| 10 | **lift up** | past | Lily | Lily's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 11 | **see** | could | Lily | the dove |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus |
| 12 | **trouble** |  | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition 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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