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title: But the moment he kissed her she opened her eyes and awoke, and smil… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the moment he kissed her she opened her eyes and awoke, and smiled upon him; and they went out together; and soon the king and queen also awoke, and all the court, and gazed on each other with great wonder. Who acts: man, moment, eyes, king. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Br
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 38

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But the moment he kissed her she opened her eyes and awoke, and smiled upon him; and they went out together; and soon the king and queen also awoke, and all the court, and gazed on each other with great wonder.

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**Who acts:** man, moment, eyes, king · **What happens:** kiss, open, awake, smile, go out, gaze · **To what, where:** Briar, eyes

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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 (man, moment, eyes, king), 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:pg2591:8:38
# text = But the moment he kissed her she opened her eyes and awoke, and smiled upon him; and they went out together; and soon the king and queen also awoke, and all the court, and gazed on each other with great wonder.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	40	obl	_	_
43	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	fixed	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | man | Briar |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **open** | past | the moment | Briar's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 3 | **awake** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **smile** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon man | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go out** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | out, together *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **awake** | past | the king and queen |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **gaze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with great wonder; on each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on each=Theme |

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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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