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title: Then, at length in his anguish, he cried as loud as he could, "Bring… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, at length in his anguish, he cried as loud as he could, "Bring me no more fodder, bring me no more fodder." Who acts: rascal. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 151

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Then, at length in his anguish, he cried as loud as he could, "Bring me no more fodder, bring me no more fodder."

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**Who acts:** rascal · **What happens:** cry, bring, anguish · **To what, where:** length, more fodder, rascal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rascal), 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:pg11027:17:151
# text = Then, at length in his anguish, he cried as loud as he could, "Bring me no more fodder, bring me no more fodder."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	no	no	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	fodder	fodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	no	no	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	fodder	fodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | rascal |  |  | length in rascal's anguish | then | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | rascal *not said here* | more fodder | rascal |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fodder=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | rascal *not said here* | more fodder | rascal |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fodder=Theme |
| 4 | **anguish** |  | rascal |  |  |  |  |  | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: 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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