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title: At last came the third, and desired a feather; but the other two cri… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: At last came the third, and desired a feather; but the other two cried out, "Keep away! for heaven's sake, keep away!" A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 28

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At last came the third, and desired a feather; but the other two cried out, "Keep away! for heaven's sake, keep away!"

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**What happens:** come, desire, cry out, keep away · **To what, where:** third, last, feather · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. 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:pg11027:15:28
# text = At last came the third, and desired a feather; but the other two cried out, "Keep away! for heaven's sake, keep away!"
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the third |  | last |  | the other two *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location third=Theme |
| 2 | **desire** | past |  | a feather |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feather=Theme |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **keep away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for heaven's sake; away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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