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title: All at once the door opened, and in stepped a little Man, who said,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: All at once the door opened, and in stepped a little Man, who said, "Good evening, fair maiden; why do you weep so sore?" " Who acts: All, little Man, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 93

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All at once the door opened, and in stepped a little Man, who said, "Good evening, fair maiden; why do you weep so sore?" "

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**Who acts:** All, little Man, you · **What happens:** open, step, say, weep · **To what, where:** little Man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (All, little Man, you), 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:pg11027:24:93
# text = All at once the door opened, and in stepped a little Man, who said, "Good evening, fair maiden; why do you weep so sore?" "
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | All |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **step** | past | All *not said here* | a little Man |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location man=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a little Man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **weep** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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