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title: But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 3

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But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bottom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** walk, see, throw, lay · **To what, where:** one day, bottom, poor little fish, water, gasping, bank

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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:pg2591:8:3
# text = But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bottom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
33	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
41	gasping	gasping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | the queen | one day *not said here* |  | the bottom of the garden |  | by the side of the river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme by side=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past | queen | a poor little fish |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |
| 3 | **throw** | past · perfect · passive |  | a poor little fish |  | the water |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination itself=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | infinitive | queen *not said here* | gasping |  | the bank |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gasping=Theme on bank=Destination |

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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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