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title: Standing outside Catherine found some thieves, wanting to steal, and… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Standing outside Catherine found some thieves, wanting to steal, and going up to them she said, "I will help you." Who acts: Standing, Catherine. 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 107

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Standing outside Catherine found some thieves, wanting to steal, and going up to them she said, "I will help you."

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**Who acts:** Standing, Catherine · **What happens:** stand, find, want, steal, go up, say · **To what, where:** Catherine, thieves, you · **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 (Standing, Catherine), 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:pg11027:12:107
# text = Standing outside Catherine found some thieves, wanting to steal, and going up to them she said, "I will help you."
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	_
2	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	ccomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | Catherine |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside catherine=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | Standing | some thieves |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic |
| 3 | **want** | gerund | Standing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **steal** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Standing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go up** | gerund |  |  | thieves *= thief* |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **help** *in a quote* | future | Catherine |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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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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