--- title: All at once he heard a rustling, and as he looked round he perceived… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: All at once he heard a rustling, and as he looked round he perceived a stranger standing before him, dressed in a gray coat, who looked very stately, but had an ugly cloven foot. " Who acts: need, stranger, gray coat. 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" **Who acts:** need, stranger, gray coat · **What happens:** hear, look round, perceive, stand, dress, look · **To what, where:** rustling, stranger, gray coat, ugly cloven foot 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: who acts (need, stranger, gray coat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:15:56 # text = All at once he heard a rustling, and as he looked round he perceived a stranger standing before him, dressed in a gray coat, who looked very stately, but had an ugly cloven foot. " 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 rustling rustling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 round round ADP IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 perceived perceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 19 before before ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 gray gray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 stately stately ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 cloven cloven ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | need | a rustling | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus | | 2 | **look round** | past | need | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **perceive** | past | need | a stranger | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | | 4 | **stand** | gerund | a stranger *not said here* | | | | before need | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | | 5 | **dress** | participle | a stranger *not said here* | | | a gray coat | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **look** | past | a gray coat | | | | | stately *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **have** | past | need *not said here* | a ugly cloven foot | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/57/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/)