--- title: Then she thanked the moon, and went on till the night-wind blew; and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then she thanked the moon, and went on till the night-wind blew; and she raised up her voice to it, and said, ‘Thou blowest through every tree and under every leaf--hast thou not seen my white dove?’ Who acts: need, night wind, Thou. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (need, night wind, Thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:44:43 # text = Then she thanked the moon, and went on till the night-wind blew; and she raised up her voice to it, and said, ‘Thou blowest through every tree and under every leaf--hast thou not seen my white 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 thanked thank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 on on ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nsubj _ _ 31 blowest blow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 under under ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 hast have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 41 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 43 nsubj _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 ccomp _ _ 44 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | need | the moon | | | then | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme | | 2 | **go on** | past | need *not said here* | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **blow** | past | the night wind | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **raise up** | past | need | need's voice | | moon | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme to it=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | need *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **blow** | present | Thou | | | every tree and every leaf | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **have** | present | Thou *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **see** | participle | thou | my white dove | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/44/) - ↑ back to [Lily and the Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/44/)