--- title: The three Dwarfs were peeping out again, but she did not greet them;… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: The three Dwarfs were peeping out again, but she did not greet them; and, stumbling on without looking at them, or speaking, she entered the room, and, seating herself by the fire, began to eat the bread and butter and meat. " Who acts: three Dwarfs, girl. 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" **Who acts:** three Dwarfs, girl · **What happens:** peep out, not greet, stumble on, look, speak, enter · **To what, where:** Dwarfs, room, girl, bread · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three Dwarfs, girl), 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:pg11027:24:45 # text = The three Dwarfs were peeping out again, but she did not greet them; and, stumbling on without looking at them, or speaking, she entered the room, and, seating herself by the fire, began to eat the bread and butter and meat. " 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 Dwarfs dwarf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 peeping peep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 stumbling stumble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 19 on on ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 without without SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 seating seat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 ccomp _ _ 36 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 obj _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 41 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **peep out** | past · progressive | the three Dwarfs | | | | again | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **greet** *speech: greet* | past · do-support | girl | | Dwarfs *= dwarf* | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **stumble on** | gerund | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **look** | gerund | girl *not said here* | | | | | at Dwarfs *= dwarf* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **enter** | past | girl | the room | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | | 7 | **seat** | gerund | | girl | | | | by the fire | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value | | 8 | **begin** | past | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **eat** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | the bread and butter and meat | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/46/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Men in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/)