--- title: It was so slight, that the next morning he felt nothing of it, and w… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: It was so slight, that the next morning he felt nothing of it, and when he heard the hunting cries outside, he exclaimed, "I cannot stop away--I must be there, and none shall catch me so easily again!" Who acts: wound, King, hunting, none. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wound, King, hunting, none), 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:pg11027:7:38 # text = It was so slight, that the next morning he felt nothing of it, and when he heard the hunting cries outside, he exclaimed, "I cannot stop away--I must be there, and none shall catch me so easily again!" 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 slight slight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 outside outside ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 parataxis _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 43 nsubj _ _ 42 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 44 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 easily easily ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 47 again again ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ! ! PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | wound | | | | | slight *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | past | King | nothing | | | morning | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | past | King | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the hunting | | | | | outside *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **stop away** *in a quote* | can | King | | | | | away *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | must | King | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **catch** *in a quote* | shall | none | King | | | again | easily *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/39/) - ↑ back to [The Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/)