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title: ‘That is my own ring,’ she exclaimed, ‘and if that is so the man mus… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That is my own ring,’ she exclaimed, ‘and if that is so the man must also be here who is coming to set me free.’ Who acts: That, maiden, man. 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 89

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‘That is my own ring,’ she exclaimed, ‘and if that is so the man must also be here who is coming to set me free.’

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**Who acts:** That, maiden, man · **What happens:** be, exclaim, set · **To what, where:** own ring, ‘, me

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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 (That, maiden, man), 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:pg2591:47:89
# text = ‘That is my own ring,’ she exclaimed, ‘and if that is so the man must also be here who is coming to set me free.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | my own ring |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | maiden | ‘ |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ‘=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | must | the man |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | that |  |  |  |  | come *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **set** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | me |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |

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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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