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title: While Bearskin sat by himself in the evening, wishing from his heart… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: While Bearskin sat by himself in the evening, wishing from his heart that the seven years were over, he heard in the corner a loud groan. Who acts: Bearskin, seven years. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 79

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While Bearskin sat by himself in the evening, wishing from his heart that the seven years were over, he heard in the corner a loud groan.

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**Who acts:** Bearskin, seven years · **What happens:** sit, wish, be, hear · **To what, where:** heart, loud groan, corner

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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: who acts (Bearskin, seven years), 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:pg11027:15:79
# text = While Bearskin sat by himself in the evening, wishing from his heart that the seven years were over, he heard in the corner a loud groan.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Bearskin	Bearskin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	groan	groan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Bearskin |  |  |  | evening | by BEARSKIN | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by himself=Location |
| 2 | **wish** | gerund | Bearskin *not said here* |  |  | BEARSKIN's heart |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** | past | the seven years | BEARSKIN's heart *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | past | BEARSKIN | a loud groan |  | the corner |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer groan=Stimulus |

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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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