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title: After that she drew a gold ring, on which her name was engraved, off… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After that she drew a gold ring, on which her name was engraved, off her finger, and put it upon one of his. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 39

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After that she drew a gold ring, on which her name was engraved, off her finger, and put it upon one of his.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** draw, engrave, put, name · **To what, where:** gold ring, name

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg2591:47:39
# text = After that she drew a gold ring, on which her name was engraved, off her finger, and put it upon one of his.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	engraved	engrave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | woman | a gold ring |  |  | after that |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 2 | **engrave** | past · passive |  | woman's name |  |  |  | off woman's finger | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive |  | name |  |  |  | upon one | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon one=Destination |
| 4 | **name** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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