--- title: When it was night, and all were making ready to go to bed, the widow… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: When it was night, and all were making ready to go to bed, the widow told the bear, "You may stay here and lie by the hearth, if you like, so that you will be sheltered from the cold and from the bad weather." Who acts: way, all, widow, bear. 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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 (way, all, widow, bear), 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:pg11027:23:35 # text = When it was night, and all were making ready to go to bed, the widow told the bear, "You may stay here and lie by the hearth, if you like, so that you will be sheltered from the cold and from the bad weather." 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 26 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hearth hearth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 42 mark _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 sheltered shelter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 conj _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 47 from from ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | way | night | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | past · progressive | all | | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | all *not said here* | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the widow | | the bear | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **stay** *in a quote* | may | the bear *= bear* | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **lie** *in a quote* | infinitive | the bear *= bear* *not said here* | | | | | by the hearth | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hearth=Location | | 7 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the bear *= bear* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 8 | **shelter** *in a quote* | future · passive | | the bear *= bear* | | the cold and the bad weather | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from cold=Beneficiary | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/36/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/)