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title: Sorry as he was to see his wish so fulfilled, he did not know how wh… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sorry as he was to see his wish so fulfilled, he did not know how what was done could be undone, and comforted himself as well as he could for the loss of his seven sons with his dear little daughter, who soon became stronger and every day more beautiful. Who acts: Scarcely, dear little daughter. A 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 8

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Sorry as he was to see his wish so fulfilled, he did not know how what was done could be undone, and comforted himself as well as he could for the loss of his seven sons with his dear little daughter, who soon became stronger and every day more beautiful.

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**Who acts:** Scarcely, dear little daughter · **What happens:** see, be, fulfil, not know, do, undo · **To what, where:** see wish, Scarcely · **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 (Scarcely, dear little daughter), 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:pg2591:53:8
# text = Sorry as he was to see his wish so fulfilled, he did not know how what was done could be undone, and comforted himself as well as he could for the loss of his seven sons with his dear little daughter, who soon became stronger and every day more beautiful.
1	Sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	compound	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	undone	undo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
41	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	_
47	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
48	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	xcomp	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	det	_	_
51	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
52	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	_
53	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Scarcely | Scarcely's see wish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fulfil** | participle |  | Scarcely's see wish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Scarcely |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **undo** | could · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
| 7 | **comfort** | past | Scarcely *not said here* | Scarcely |  |  |  | well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 8 | **become** | past | Scarcely's dear little daughter |  |  |  |  | soon, strong *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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