--- title: Instantly a heartrending cry reached their ears, and, running quickl… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Instantly a heartrending cry reached their ears, and, running quickly to the place, they saw, with horror, that the eagle had seized their former acquaintance, the dwarf, and was just about to carry him off. Who acts: heartrending cry, children. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/88/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/) / 88 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 88 Instantly a heartrending cry reached their ears, and, running quickly to the place, they saw, with horror, that the eagle had seized their former acquaintance, the dwarf, and was just about to carry him off. **Who acts:** heartrending cry, children · **What happens:** reach, run, see, seize, be, acquaint · **To what, where:** ears, horror, eagle 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 (heartrending cry, children), 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:pg11027:23:88 # text = Instantly a heartrending cry reached their ears, and, running quickly to the place, they saw, with horror, that the eagle had seized their former acquaintance, the dwarf, and was just about to carry him off. 1 Instantly instantly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 heartrending heartrending NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 12 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 seized seize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 acquaintance acquaintance NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 dwarf dwarf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 37 just just ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 about about ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 off off ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | a heartrending cry | children's ears | | | | instantly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 2 | **run** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | to the place *result*; quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | | 3 | **see** | past | children *= child* | horror | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horror=Stimulus | | 4 | **seize** | past · perfect · passive | | the eagle | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | a heartrending cry *not said here* | | | | | about, carry *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **acquaint** | | children *= child* | | | | | | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/89/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/)