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title: Upon a clear space he had turned out his sack of jewels, so that he… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon a clear space he had turned out his sack of jewels, so that he could count and admire them, for he had not imagined that anybody would at so late an hour be coming across the common. Who acts: voice, hour. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its d
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 96

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Upon a clear space he had turned out his sack of jewels, so that he could count and admire them, for he had not imagined that anybody would at so late an hour be coming across the common.

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**Who acts:** voice, hour · **What happens:** turn out, count, admire, not imagine, come · **To what, where:** clear space, maidens, common

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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 (voice, hour), 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:pg11027:23:96
# text = Upon a clear space he had turned out his sack of jewels, so that he could count and admire them, for he had not imagined that anybody would at so late an hour be coming across the common.
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	parataxis	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux	_	_
37	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
38	across	across	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn out** | past · perfect · passive |  | a clear space |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | could | voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **admire** | infinitive | voice *not said here* | maidens *= maiden* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **imagine** | past · perfect | voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **come** | infinitive · progressive | a hour |  |  | the common |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across common=Initial\_Location |

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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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