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title: This grieved him very much, for Lily was his dearest child; and as h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This grieved him very much, for Lily was his dearest child; and as he was journeying home, thinking what he should bring her, he came to a fine castle; and around the castle was a garden, in one half of which it seemed to be summer-time and in the other half winter. Who acts: This, Lily, father, it.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 6

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This grieved him very much, for Lily was his dearest child; and as he was journeying home, thinking what he should bring her, he came to a fine castle; and around the castle was a garden, in one half of which it seemed to be summer-time and in the other half winter.

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**Who acts:** This, Lily, father, it · **What happens:** grieve, be, journey, think, bring, come · **To what, where:** father, Lily, fine castle, garden, castle, summer time · **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 (This, Lily, father, it), 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:pg2591:44:6
# text = This grieved him very much, for Lily was his dearest child; and as he was journeying home, thinking what he should bring her, he came to a fine castle; and around the castle was a garden, in one half of which it seemed to be summer-time and in the other half winter.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	around	around	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	41	appos	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	obl	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	cop	_	_
52	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	xcomp	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
58	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
59	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	60	compound	_	_
60	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | past | This | father |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Lily |  |  |  |  | for father's dearest child | tree rules |
| 3 | **journey** | past · progressive | father |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | should | father |  | Lily |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme she=Destination |
| 6 | **come** | past | father |  |  | a fine castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | a garden |  | the castle |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  | of one half | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | summer time and the other half winter |  |  |  |  | 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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