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title: When the first joy at their meeting was over, the princess told him… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the first joy at their meeting was over, the princess told him she had heard of his father having forgiven him, and of his wish to have him home again: so, before his wedding with the princess, he went to visit his father, taking her with him. Who acts: first joy, princess, father, forest. A se
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 81

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When the first joy at their meeting was over, the princess told him she had heard of his father having forgiven him, and of his wish to have him home again: so, before his wedding with the princess, he went to visit his father, taking her with him.

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**Who acts:** first joy, princess, father, forest · **What happens:** be, tell, hear, have, forgive, go · **To what, where:** forest, father, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first joy, princess, father, forest), 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:pg2591:49:81
# text = When the first joy at their meeting was over, the princess told him she had heard of his father having forgiven him, and of his wish to have him home again: so, before his wedding with the princess, he went to visit his father, taking her with him.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	forgiven	forgive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	home	home	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	before	before	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
52	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the first joy at husband's meeting |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the princess |  | forest |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | princess |  |  |  |  | of forest's father | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of father=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | forest's father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **forgive** | participle | forest's father *not said here* | forest |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | forest |  |  | again | home *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 7 | **go** | past | forest |  |  |  | before forest's wedding with the princess |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **visit** | to-infinitive | forest *not said here* | forest's father |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent |
| 9 | **take** | gerund | forest *not said here* |  | princess |  |  | with forest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 10 | **wish** |  | forest |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **wed** |  | forest |  |  |  |  | with the princess | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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