--- title: Not long afterwards, when he was just going to sleep, he heard two m… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Not long afterwards, when he was just going to sleep, he heard two men go by, and one of them was saying, "How shall we contrive to get hold of the rich pastor's silver and gold?" " Who acts: fellow, two men, one, we. 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" **Who acts:** fellow, two men, one, we · **What happens:** go, sleep, hear, go by, say, contrive · **To what, where:** hold, silver · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (fellow, two men, one, we), 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:pg11027:17:120 # text = Not long afterwards, when he was just going to sleep, he heard two men go by, and one of them was saying, "How shall we contrive to get hold of the rich pastor's silver and gold?" " 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 3 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 contrive contrive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 pastor pastor NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · progressive | fellow | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | fellow *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hear** | past | fellow | | | | | long *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **go by** | present | two men | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | one of gentlemen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **contrive** *in a quote* | shall | we | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | hold of the rich pastor's silver and gold | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | | 8 | **hold** *in a quote* | | | the rich pastor's silver | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/121/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/)