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title: But scarcely had they done this when up came the fellows who carried… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But scarcely had they done this when up came the fellows who carried away what should not go with them, and find things before they are lost. Who acts: apples, fellows. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 71

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But scarcely had they done this when up came the fellows who carried away what should not go with them, and find things before they are lost.

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**Who acts:** apples, fellows · **What happens:** do, come, carry away, not go, find, lose · **To what, where:** this, fellows, things, apples

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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 (apples, fellows), 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:pg11027:12:71
# text = But scarcely had they done this when up came the fellows who carried away what should not go with them, and find things before they are lost.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | apples *= apple* | this |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | past | apples *= apple* *not said here* | the fellows |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fellow=Theme |
| 3 | **carry away** | past | the fellows |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **go** | should |  |  |  |  |  | with apples *= apple* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **find** | infinitive |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 6 | **lose** | present · passive |  | apples *= apple* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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