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title: Within lie two lions with open jaws, but if you throw down to each a… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Within lie two lions with open jaws, but if you throw down to each a loaf of bread they will be quiet. Who acts: you, lions. 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 22

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Within lie two lions with open jaws, but if you throw down to each a loaf of bread they will be quiet.

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**Who acts:** you, lions · **What happens:** lie, throw down, be · **To what, where:** two lions, loaf

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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 (you, lions), 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:pg11027:17:22
# text = Within lie two lions with open jaws, but if you throw down to each a loaf of bread they will be quiet.
1	Within	within	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** |  |  | two lions |  |  |  | with open jaws | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lion=Theme |
| 2 | **throw down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | each loaf of bread |  | down *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to loaf=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | future | lions *= lion* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

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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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