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title: ‘She sits upstairs in her room, Bewailing her sorrowful doom, Bewail… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘She sits upstairs in her room, Bewailing her sorrowful doom, Bewailing her trouble so sore, For old Mr Fox is no more.’ Who acts: Mrs, Bewailing. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 10

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‘She sits upstairs in her room, Bewailing her sorrowful doom, Bewailing her trouble so sore, For old Mr Fox is no more.’

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**Who acts:** Mrs, Bewailing · **What happens:** sit, bewail, not be, doom, trouble · **To what, where:** room, sorrowful doom, trouble

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs, Bewailing), 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:pg2591:55:10
# text = ‘She sits upstairs in her room, Bewailing her sorrowful doom, Bewailing her trouble so sore, For old Mr Fox is no more.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Bewailing	bewail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Bewailing	bewail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	For	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | Mrs |  |  | Mrs's room |  | upstairs *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **bewail** | gerund |  | Mrs's sorrowful doom |  |  |  | for old Mr Fox | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer doom=Stimulus for fox=Attribute |
| 3 | **bewail** | gerund |  | Mrs's trouble |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | Bewailing |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **doom** |  | Mrs |  |  |  |  |  | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **trouble** |  | Mrs |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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