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title: At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the st… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty manikin had just before scattered peas in every street there was. Who acts: peas, crafty manikin. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by J
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 57

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At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty manikin had just before scattered peas in every street there was.

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**Who acts:** peas, crafty manikin · **What happens:** carry, fall, make, have · **To what, where:** sleeping princess, streets, pocket, track, scattered peas, street

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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 (peas, crafty manikin), 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:pg2591:46:57
# text = At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty manikin had just before scattered peas in every street there was.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	manikin	manikin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	just	just	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	before	before	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	38	amod	_	_
38	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
42	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	43	expl	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · passive |  | the sleeping princess |  | the streets | again |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past · do-support | some peas |  |  | princess's pocket | night | certainly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out pocket=Location |
| 3 | **make** | past | peas *= pea* | no track |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset track=Product |
| 4 | **have** | past | the crafty manikin | scattered peas |  | every street |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient |

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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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