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title: The boat, however, did not sink, for the good fairy took care of her… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The boat, however, did not sink, for the good fairy took care of her friend, and soon raised the boat up again, and it went safely on. Who acts: boat, friend. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 34

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The boat, however, did not sink, for the good fairy took care of her friend, and soon raised the boat up again, and it went safely on.

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**Who acts:** boat, friend · **What happens:** not sink, take, raise up, go, care · **To what, where:** care, boat

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, friend), 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:pg2591:51:34
# text = The boat, however, did not sink, for the good fairy took care of her friend, and soon raised the boat up again, and it went safely on.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	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	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
31	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	on	on	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sink** | past · do-support | the boat |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | care of sorrow's friend |  |  |  | for the good fairy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme for fairy=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **raise up** | past |  | the boat |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | boat |  |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **care** |  | sorrow's friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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