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title: So twelve fairies came, each with a high red cap on her head, and re… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So twelve fairies came, each with a high red cap on her head, and red shoes with high heels on her feet, and a long white wand in her hand: and after the feast was over they gathered round in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little princess. Who acts: twelve fairies, fairies. A sentence o
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 9

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So twelve fairies came, each with a high red cap on her head, and red shoes with high heels on her feet, and a long white wand in her hand: and after the feast was over they gathered round in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little princess.

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**Who acts:** twelve fairies, fairies · **What happens:** come, gather, give, gift · **To what, where:** each, ring, best gifts, little princess

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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 (twelve fairies, fairies), 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:pg2591:8:9
# text = So twelve fairies came, each with a high red cap on her head, and red shoes with high heels on her feet, and a long white wand in her hand: and after the feast was over they gathered round in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little princess.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
36	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	over	over	ADP	IN	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
43	round	round	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	52	amod	_	_
52	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | twelve fairies | each |  |  |  | red shoes with high heels on queen's feet *obl*; a long white wand in queen's hand *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | past | fairies *= fairy* |  |  | a ring |  | round *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | fairies *= fairy* *not said here* | fairies's best gifts | the little princess |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to princess=Recipient |
| 4 | **gift** |  | fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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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