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title: Thus the unhappy traveller was again forsaken and forlorn; but she t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the unhappy traveller was again forsaken and forlorn; but she took heart and said, ‘As far as the wind blows, and so long as the cock crows, I will journey on, till I find him once again.’ Who acts: princess, wind, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion, with i
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 53

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Thus the unhappy traveller was again forsaken and forlorn; but she took heart and said, ‘As far as the wind blows, and so long as the cock crows, I will journey on, till I find him once again.’

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**Who acts:** princess, wind, I · **What happens:** forsake, take, say, blow, find · **To what, where:** unhappy traveller, heart, journey, prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (princess, wind, I), 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:pg2591:44:53
# text = Thus the unhappy traveller was again forsaken and forlorn; but she took heart and said, ‘As far as the wind blows, and so long as the cock crows, I will journey on, till I find him once again.’
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	As	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	44	advmod	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | past · passive |  | the unhappy traveller |  |  | again | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | princess | heart |  | journey |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heart=Theme on journey=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **blow** | present | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **find** | present | I | prince |  |  | again |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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