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title: By and by night came on, and Catherine ran into the village, and, kn… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: By and by night came on, and Catherine ran into the village, and, knocking at her husband's window, called, "Fred!" Who acts: Catherine, knocking. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 102

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By and by night came on, and Catherine ran into the village, and, knocking at her husband's window, called, "Fred!"

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**Who acts:** Catherine, knocking · **What happens:** come on, run, knock, call · **To what, where:** village · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine, knocking), 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:pg11027:12:102
# text = By and by night came on, and Catherine ran into the village, and, knocking at her husband's window, called, "Fred!"
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	csubj:pass	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Fred	Fred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | past |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  | into the village *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into village=Result |
| 3 | **knock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at Catherine's husband's window | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient |
| 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle | knocking |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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