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title: Meanwhile the smell of the jam rose to the ceiling, where many flies… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the smell of the jam rose to the ceiling, where many flies were sitting, and enticed them down, so that soon a great swarm of them had pitched on the bread. " Who acts: smell, many flies, jam. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its depende
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 10

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Meanwhile the smell of the jam rose to the ceiling, where many flies were sitting, and enticed them down, so that soon a great swarm of them had pitched on the bread. "

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**Who acts:** smell, many flies, jam · **What happens:** rise, sit, entice down, pitch, smell · **To what, where:** ceiling, flies, great swarm, bread

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, many flies, jam), 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:pg11027:13:10
# text = Meanwhile the smell of the jam rose to the ceiling, where many flies were sitting, and enticed them down, so that soon a great swarm of them had pitched on the bread. "
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	enticed	entice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	fixed	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	swarm	swarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the smell of the jam |  |  | the ceiling |  | meanwhile *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ceiling=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | many flies |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **entice down** | past | the smell of the jam *not said here* | flies *= fly* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 4 | **pitch** | past · perfect · passive |  | a great swarm of flies |  | the bread |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on bread=Destination |
| 5 | **smell** |  | the jam |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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