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title: When they had eaten a very scanty meal they went to bed; but the fid… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had eaten a very scanty meal they went to bed; but the fiddler called her up very early in the morning to clean the house. Who acts: servants, fiddler. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 41

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When they had eaten a very scanty meal they went to bed; but the fiddler called her up very early in the morning to clean the house.

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**Who acts:** servants, fiddler · **What happens:** eat, go, call up, clean · **To what, where:** scanty meal, princess, house

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, fiddler), 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:pg2591:58:41
# text = When they had eaten a very scanty meal they went to bed; but the fiddler called her up very early in the morning to clean the house.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	scanty	scanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | servants *= servant* | a scanty meal |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | servants *= servant* | a scanty meal *not said here* |  |  |  | to bed | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meal=Theme |
| 3 | **call up** *speech: assert* | past | the fiddler |  | princess |  | morning | early *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **clean** | to-infinitive | the fiddler *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=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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