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title: He was for going in directly, but one of the sentinels happening to… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: He was for going in directly, but one of the sentinels happening to catch sight of him, exclaimed: "Here is indeed an ugly spider; I will crush it with my foot." Who acts: Tom, sentinels, one, I. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 23

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He was for going in directly, but one of the sentinels happening to catch sight of him, exclaimed: "Here is indeed an ugly spider; I will crush it with my foot."

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**Who acts:** Tom, sentinels, one, I · **What happens:** go in, happen, catch, exclaim, be, crush · **To what, where:** sight, ugly spider, Tom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, sentinels, one, I), 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:pg11027:22:23
# text = He was for going in directly, but one of the sentinels happening to catch sight of him, exclaimed: "Here is indeed an ugly spider; I will crush it with my foot."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past · progressive | Tom |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | gerund | the sentinels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | the sentinels *not said here* | sight of Tom |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 4 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | one of the sentinels |  |  | here |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a ugly spider |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **crush** *in a quote* | future | I | sight |  |  |  | with my foot | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with foot=Instrument |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | Tom |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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