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title: As soon as the little man had in some measure recovered from his ala… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the little man had in some measure recovered from his alarm, his small squeaky, cracked voice was heard saying, "Couldn't you have held me more gently? Who acts: little man, small squeaky cracked voice, you, man. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-re
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 91

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As soon as the little man had in some measure recovered from his alarm, his small squeaky, cracked voice was heard saying, "Couldn't you have held me more gently?

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**Who acts:** little man, small squeaky cracked voice, you, man · **What happens:** have, recover, crack, hear, say, not hold · **To what, where:** measure, alarm, small squeaky cracked voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (little man, small squeaky cracked voice, you, man), 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:pg11027:23:91
# text = As soon as the little man had in some measure recovered from his alarm, his small squeaky, cracked voice was heard saying, "Couldn't you have held me more gently?
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	squeaky	squeaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
24	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the little man |  |  | some measure |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **recover** | past |  |  |  | man's alarm |  | soon *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from alarm=Source |
| 3 | **crack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | past · passive |  | man's small squeaky cracked voice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | gerund | man's small squeaky cracked voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **hold** *in a quote* | could · perfect | you | man's small squeaky cracked voice *= voice* |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 7 | **alarm** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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