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title: ‘He is at work in the garden; the queer creature has been at the fes… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘He is at work in the garden; the queer creature has been at the festival too, and only came home yesterday evening; he has likewise shown my children three golden apples which he has won.’ Who acts: king, queer creature, three golden apples. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 131

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‘He is at work in the garden; the queer creature has been at the festival too, and only came home yesterday evening; he has likewise shown my children three golden apples which he has won.’

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**Who acts:** king, queer creature, three golden apples · **What happens:** be, come, show, win · **To what, where:** work, festival, children

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queer creature, three golden apples), 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:pg2591:59:131
# text = ‘He is at work in the garden; the queer creature has been at the festival too, and only came home yesterday evening; he has likewise shown my children three golden apples which he has won.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	home	home	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | king |  |  | work and the festival |  | in the garden | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | the queer creature |  |  | the festival |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | king *not said here* |  |  |  | evening | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | present · perfect | king |  | my children |  |  | three golden apples *obl*; likewise *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 5 | **win** | present · perfect | three golden apples |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «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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