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title: Thumbling crept still farther in, and as it soon became quite dark,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Thumbling crept still farther in, and as it soon became quite dark, they were forced to go home with their vexation and their empty purses. Who acts: Thumbling, gentlemen. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 114

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Thumbling crept still farther in, and as it soon became quite dark, they were forced to go home with their vexation and their empty purses.

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**Who acts:** Thumbling, gentlemen · **What happens:** creep, become, force, go, vex · **To what, where:** gentlemen

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thumbling, gentlemen), 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:pg11027:17:114
# text = Thumbling crept still farther in, and as it soon became quite dark, they were forced to go home with their vexation and their empty purses.
1	Thumbling	thumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | Thumbling |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | Thumbling |  |  |  |  | dark, soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **force** | past · passive |  | gentlemen *= gentleman* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | gentlemen *= gentleman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with gentlemen's vexation; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with vexation=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **vex** |  | gentlemen *= gentleman* |  |  |  |  |  | nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=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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