--- title: Thus they dwelt in this wilderness, and some time had elapsed when i… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Thus they dwelt in this wilderness, and some time had elapsed when it happened that the King of the country had a great hunt in the forest; and now sounded through the trees the blowing of horns, the barking of dogs, and the lusty cry of the hunters, so that the little Fawn heard them, and wanted ve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/24/) [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/) / [The Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/) / 24 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 24 Thus they dwelt in this wilderness, and some time had elapsed when it happened that the King of the country had a great hunt in the forest; and now sounded through the trees the blowing of horns, the barking of dogs, and the lusty cry of the hunters, so that the little Fawn heard them, and wanted very much to join in. " **Who acts:** lives, it, King, little Fawn, hunters · **What happens:** dwell, elapse, happen, have, sound, hear · **To what, where:** wilderness, time, great hunt, forest, lusty cry, trees This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lives, it, King, little Fawn), 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:pg11027:7:24 # text = Thus they dwelt in this wilderness, and some time had elapsed when it happened that the King of the country had a great hunt in the forest; and now sounded through the trees the blowing of horns, the barking of dogs, and the lusty cry of the hunters, so that the little Fawn heard them, and wanted very much to join in. " 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 elapsed elapse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 hunt hunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 32 sounded sound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 blowing blowing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 barking barking NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 lusty lusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 54 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 59 mark _ _ 55 that that SCONJ IN _ 54 fixed _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 Fawn fawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nsubj _ _ 59 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 60 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 64 very very ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ _ 65 much much ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 66 to to PART TO _ 67 mark _ _ 67 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 63 xcomp _ _ 68 in in ADP RP _ 67 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 70 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dwell** | past | lives *= life* | | | this wilderness | | thus *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wilderness=Location | | 2 | **elapse** | past · perfect · passive | | some time | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **happen** | past | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | the King of the country | a great hunt | | the forest | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Patient | | 5 | **sound** | participle | | the lusty cry of the hunters | | the trees and the blowing of horns and the barking of dogs | now | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location | | 6 | **hear** | past | the little Fawn | lives *= life* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 7 | **want** | past | lives *= life* *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **join in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lives *= life* *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **blow** | | | horns and the barking of dogs | | | | | nom blowing «process transitive»: of=patient | | 10 | **cry** | | the hunters | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/25/) - ↑ back to [The Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/)