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title: A large hedge of thorns soon grew round the palace, and every year i… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A large hedge of thorns soon grew round the palace, and every year it became higher and thicker; till at last the old palace was surrounded and hidden, so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen. Who acts: large hedge, hedge. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Ros
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 26

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A large hedge of thorns soon grew round the palace, and every year it became higher and thicker; till at last the old palace was surrounded and hidden, so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen.

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**Who acts:** large hedge, hedge · **What happens:** grow, become, surround, hide, see · **To what, where:** old palace, last, roof

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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 (large hedge, hedge), 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:pg2591:8:26
# text = A large hedge of thorns soon grew round the palace, and every year it became higher and thicker; till at last the old palace was surrounded and hidden, so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
35	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
41	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | a large hedge of thorns |  |  |  |  | round the palace; soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | hedge |  |  |  | year | high *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **surround** | past · passive |  | the old palace |  | last |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | could · passive |  | the roof or the chimneys |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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