--- title: When winter came, he was taken down for a guest's meal, and while th… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: When winter came, he was taken down for a guest's meal, and while the hostess was slicing the sausage he had to be on his guard, lest if he stretched out his head it might be cut off. Who acts: winter, hostess, blow. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winter, hostess, blow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:22:65 # text = When winter came, he was taken down for a guest's meal, and while the hostess was slicing the sausage he had to be on his guard, lest if he stretched out his head it might be cut off. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hostess hostess NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 slicing slice VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sausage sausage NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 parataxis _ _ 42 off off ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | winter | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take down** | past · passive | | blow | | | | for a guest's meal | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **slice** | past · progressive | the hostess | the sausage | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Patient | | 4 | **have** | past | blow | the sausage *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Patient | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | blow *not said here* | | | blow's guard | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stretch out** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | blow | blow's head | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 7 | **cut off** | might · passive | | hostess | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/22/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/22/66/) - ↑ back to [The Travels of Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/22/)