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description: He looked on quietly for some time, but at last, getting angry, he took up his knife and called out, "Away with you, you vagabonds!" and chased them about until a part ran off, and the rest he killed and threw into the pond. Who acts: cold, you, part, rest. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by J
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 101

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He looked on quietly for some time, but at last, getting angry, he took up his knife and called out, "Away with you, you vagabonds!" and chased them about until a part ran off, and the rest he killed and threw into the pond.

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**Who acts:** cold, you, part, rest · **What happens:** look on, get, take up, call out, vagabond, chase · **To what, where:** last, knife, vagabonds, pond · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold, you, part, rest), 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:pg11027:9:101
# text = He looked on quietly for some time, but at last, getting angry, he took up his knife and called out, "Away with you, you vagabonds!" and chased them about until a part ran off, and the rest he killed and threw into the pond.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	vagabonds	vagabond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	about	about	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
51	into	into	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look on** | past | cold |  |  |  | time | quietly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | cold *not said here* |  |  | last |  | angry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **take up** | past | cold | cold's knife |  |  |  | with you; away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: express* | participle | cold *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **vagabond** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **chase** | past | cold *not said here* | vagabonds *= vagabond* |  |  |  | about *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **run off** | past | a part |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **kill** | past | the rest |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **throw** | past | the rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the pond *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into pond=Result |

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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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