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description: When the seventh came to the bottom of his glass, and found there the ring, he looked at it, and knew that it was his father’s and mother’s, and said, ‘O that our little sister would but come! then we should be free.’ Who acts: seventh, ring, we. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, T
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 30

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When the seventh came to the bottom of his glass, and found there the ring, he looked at it, and knew that it was his father’s and mother’s, and said, ‘O that our little sister would but come! then we should be free.’

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**Who acts:** seventh, ring, we · **What happens:** come, find, look, know, be, say · **To what, where:** bottom, ring · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (seventh, ring, we), 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:pg2591:53:30
# text = When the seventh came to the bottom of his glass, and found there the ring, he looked at it, and knew that it was his father’s and mother’s, and said, ‘O that our little sister would but come! then we should be free.’
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	seventh	seventh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	44	discourse	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
48	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
49	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	cop	_	_
52	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the seventh |  |  | the bottom of seventh's glass |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | the seventh *not said here* | the ring |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic |
| 3 | **look** | past | seventh |  |  |  |  | at ring | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past | seventh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | ring |  |  |  |  | 's seventh's father and mother | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | seventh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **come** | infinitive | seventh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | should | we |  |  |  | then | free *property* | tree rules |

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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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