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title: They remarked that, after circling slowly for a time, and gradually… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: They remarked that, after circling slowly for a time, and gradually getting nearer to the ground, it all of a sudden pounced down amongst a mass of rock. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 87

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They remarked that, after circling slowly for a time, and gradually getting nearer to the ground, it all of a sudden pounced down amongst a mass of rock.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** remark, circle, get, pounce down

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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 (children), 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:pg11027:23:87
# text = They remarked that, after circling slowly for a time, and gradually getting nearer to the ground, it all of a sudden pounced down amongst a mass of rock.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	circling	circle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
15	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
24	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
25	pounced	pounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **circle** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  | time | slowly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gradually, near *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **pounce down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «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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