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title: Twelve long years have I waited here for the fairy to bring you hith… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Twelve long years have I waited here for the fairy to bring you hither as she promised, for you alone can save me. Who acts: I, fairy, snake, you. 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 40

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Twelve long years have I waited here for the fairy to bring you hither as she promised, for you alone can save me.

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**Who acts:** I, fairy, snake, you · **What happens:** wait, bring, promise, save · **To what, where:** you, me

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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 (I, fairy, snake, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2591:2128`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:51:40
# text = Twelve long years have I waited here for the fairy to bring you hither as she promised, for you alone can save me.
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present · perfect | I |  |  | here | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the fairy |  | you |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | snake |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **save** | can | you | me |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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