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title: So he once more searched the whole palace through, till at last he f… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he once more searched the whole palace through, till at last he found a white snake, lying coiled up on a cushion in one of the chambers. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 38

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So he once more searched the whole palace through, till at last he found a white snake, lying coiled up on a cushion in one of the chambers.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** search, find, coil up · **To what, where:** whole palace, white snake, cushion

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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 (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:pg2591:51:38
# text = So he once more searched the whole palace through, till at last he found a white snake, lying coiled up on a cushion in one of the chambers.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	through	through	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	till	till	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	coiled	coil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | man | the whole palace |  |  |  | once, through *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent palace=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | man | a white snake |  |  | till last |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic |
| 3 | **coil up** | gerund · passive | man *not said here* |  |  | a cushion |  | in one of the chambers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: on cushion=Source in one=Trajectory |

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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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