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title: ‘Then let him come upstairs,’ said Mrs Fox, and ordered the servant… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Then let him come upstairs,’ said Mrs Fox, and ordered the servant to prepare the wedding feast. Who acts: Fox, Mrs Fox, servant. 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 24

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‘Then let him come upstairs,’ said Mrs Fox, and ordered the servant to prepare the wedding feast.

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**Who acts:** Fox, Mrs Fox, servant · **What happens:** let, come, say, order, prepare · **To what, where:** Fox, servant, wedding feast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fox, Mrs Fox, servant), 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:pg2591:55:24
# text = ‘Then let him come upstairs,’ said Mrs Fox, and ordered the servant to prepare the wedding feast.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive |  | Fox |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mrs Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **order** | past |  | the servant |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **prepare** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the servant *not said here* | the wedding feast |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=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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