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title: She wanted to save her brothers, and had no key of the castle of the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She wanted to save her brothers, and had no key of the castle of the glass-mountain; so this faithful little sister took a knife out of her pocket and cut off her little finger, that was just the size of the piece of wood she had lost, and put it in the door and opened it. Who acts: girl, this, fait
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 18

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She wanted to save her brothers, and had no key of the castle of the glass-mountain; so this faithful little sister took a knife out of her pocket and cut off her little finger, that was just the size of the piece of wood she had lost, and put it in the door and opened it.

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**Who acts:** girl, this, faithful little sister, that · **What happens:** want, save, have, sister, take, cut off · **To what, where:** brothers, key, knife, pocket, little finger, size

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, this, faithful little sister, that), 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:pg2591:53:18
# text = She wanted to save her brothers, and had no key of the castle of the glass-mountain; so this faithful little sister took a knife out of her pocket and cut off her little finger, that was just the size of the piece of wood she had lost, and put it in the door and opened it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
23	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	just	just	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
62	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | girl's brothers |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | girl *not said here* | no key of the castle of the glass mountain |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient |
| 4 | **sister** |  | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | past | faithful little sister | a knife |  | girl's pocket |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme out pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **cut off** | participle | faithful little sister *not said here* | girl's little finger |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector finger=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is a** | past | that | the size |  |  |  | of the piece of wood | tree rules |
| 8 | **lose** | past · perfect | girl | wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Eventuality |
| 9 | **put** | infinitive | faithful little sister *not said here* | piece |  | the door |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in door=Destination |
| 10 | **open** | past | faithful little sister *not said here* | piece |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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