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title: ‘Alas!’ sighed she, ‘if any of my father’s court should pass by and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Alas!’ sighed she, ‘if any of my father’s court should pass by and see me standing in the market, how they will laugh at me!’ Who acts: any, me, pans. 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 49

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‘Alas!’ sighed she, ‘if any of my father’s court should pass by and see me standing in the market, how they will laugh at me!’

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**Who acts:** any, me, pans · **What happens:** sigh, pass by, see, stand, laugh · **To what, where:** bargain, me, market

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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 (any, me, pans), 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:pg2591:58:49
# text = ‘Alas!’ sighed she, ‘if any of my father’s court should pass by and see me standing in the market, how they will laugh at me!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | past |  | bargain |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **pass by** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | any |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | any *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | me *not said here* |  |  | the market |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in market=Location |
| 5 | **laugh** | future | pans *= pan* |  |  |  |  | at me | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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