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title: Hardly, however, had he set his foot inside than Thumbling again cri… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Hardly, however, had he set his foot inside than Thumbling again cried, "Bring me no more fodder, bring me no more fodder." Who acts: pastor. 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 155

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Hardly, however, had he set his foot inside than Thumbling again cried, "Bring me no more fodder, bring me no more fodder."

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**Who acts:** pastor · **What happens:** have, set, thumbl, cry, bring · **To what, where:** foot, more fodder, pastor · **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 (pastor), 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:pg11027:17:155
# text = Hardly, however, had he set his foot inside than Thumbling again cried, "Bring me no more fodder, bring me no more fodder."
1	Hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advmod	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	fodder	fodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	fodder	fodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hardly, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | past | pastor | pastor's foot |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result |
| 3 | **thumbl** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | pastor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | more fodder | pastor |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fodder=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | more fodder | pastor |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fodder=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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