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title: Now, as she had not been asked to the feast she was very angry, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, as she had not been asked to the feast she was very angry, and scolded the king and queen very much, and set to work to take her revenge. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 12

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Now, as she had not been asked to the feast she was very angry, and scolded the king and queen very much, and set to work to take her revenge.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** not ask, be, scold, set, work, take · **To what, where:** queen, feast, king, revenge

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg2591:8:12
# text = Now, as she had not been asked to the feast she was very angry, and scolded the king and queen very much, and set to work to take her revenge.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect · passive |  | queen |  |  | now | to the feast | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | queen | the feast *not said here* |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **scold** | past |  | the king and queen |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | queen's revenge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme |
| 7 | **revenge** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom revenge «act 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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