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title: Then the ringing began afresh, and a roaring and howling was heard,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the ringing began afresh, and a roaring and howling was heard, and the other half fell down. " Who acts: ringing, other half. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 115

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Then the ringing began afresh, and a roaring and howling was heard, and the other half fell down. "

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**Who acts:** ringing, other half · **What happens:** begin, hear, fall down · **To what, where:** roaring

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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 (ringing, other half), 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:pg11027:9:115
# text = Then the ringing began afresh, and a roaring and howling was heard, and the other half fell down. "
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ringing	ringing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	afresh	afresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roaring	roaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	howling	howling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the ringing |  |  |  | then | afresh *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive |  | a roaring and howling |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fall down** | past | the other half |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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