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title: ‘Late at night, when the king’s daughter is in bed, bring her here i… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Late at night, when the king’s daughter is in bed, bring her here in her sleep, she shall do servant’s work for me.’ Who acts: daughter, you, dwarf, servant. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 42

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‘Late at night, when the king’s daughter is in bed, bring her here in her sleep, she shall do servant’s work for me.’

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**Who acts:** daughter, you, dwarf, servant · **What happens:** be, bring, do, sleep, work · **To what, where:** bed, dwarf, sleep, work

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, you, dwarf, servant), 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:pg2591:46:42
# text = ‘Late at night, when the king’s daughter is in bed, bring her here in her sleep, she shall do servant’s work for me.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
25	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the king's daughter |  |  | bed |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | dwarf | dwarf's sleep; here | night |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 3 | **do** | shall | dwarf | servant's work |  |  |  | for me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sleep** |  | dwarf |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **work** |  | servant |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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