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title: After this, every evening at the same time the bear came, lay by the… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: After this, every evening at the same time the bear came, lay by the fire, and allowed the children to play with him; so they became quite fond of their curious playmate, and the door was not ever bolted in the evening until he had appeared. Who acts: bear, children, widow. A sentence of «Grimm's Fa
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 37

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After this, every evening at the same time the bear came, lay by the fire, and allowed the children to play with him; so they became quite fond of their curious playmate, and the door was not ever bolted in the evening until he had appeared.

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**Who acts:** bear, children, widow · **What happens:** come, lay, allow, play, become, not bolt · **To what, where:** same time, children, door

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, children, widow), 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:pg11027:23:37
# text = After this, every evening at the same time the bear came, lay by the fire, and allowed the children to play with him; so they became quite fond of their curious playmate, and the door was not ever bolted in the evening until he had appeared.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	playmate	playmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	44	advmod	_	_
44	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the bear | the same time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | the bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by fire=Destination |
| 3 | **allow** | past | the bear *not said here* | the children |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer child=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with widow | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **become** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  | evening | fond *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **bolt** | past · passive |  | the door |  |  | ever; evening |  | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **appear** | past · perfect | widow |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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