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title: His quarters were especially unpleasing to him, and the worst was, m… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: His quarters were especially unpleasing to him, and the worst was, more and more hay was always coming in by the door, and the space grew less and less. Who acts: quarters, worst, more hay, space. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and t
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 150

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His quarters were especially unpleasing to him, and the worst was, more and more hay was always coming in by the door, and the space grew less and less.

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**Who acts:** quarters, worst, more hay, space · **What happens:** be, come in, grow · **To what, where:** rascal

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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 (quarters, worst, more hay, space), 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:pg11027:17:150
# text = His quarters were especially unpleasing to him, and the worst was, more and more hay was always coming in by the door, and the space grew less and less.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	unpleasing	unpleasing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | rascal's quarters |  | rascal |  |  | especially, unpleasing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the worst |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come in** | past · progressive | more hay |  |  |  |  | by the door; always *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by door=Location |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the space |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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