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title: The contrasted fates of two step-sisters, is the Frau Holle (Grimm,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The contrasted fates of two step-sisters, is the Frau Holle (Grimm, No. 24) type of Folk-tale studied by Cosquin, i. 250, _seq. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well., sentence 8

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The contrasted fates of two step-sisters, is the Frau Holle (Grimm, No. 24) type of Folk-tale studied by Cosquin, i. 250, \_seq.

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**What happens:** be, study, fate, type · **To what, where:** Frau Holle, Folk tale, two step sisters

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7439:93:8
# text = The contrasted fates of two step-sisters, is the Frau Holle (Grimm, No. 24) type of Folk-tale studied by Cosquin, i. 250, _seq.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	contrasted	contrasted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fates	fate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Frau	Frau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
20	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	studied	study	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	nsubj	_	_
30	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	seq	seq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Frau Holle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **study** | participle |  | Folk tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fate** |  |  | two step sisters |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **type** |  |  | Folk tale |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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