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title: When it grew late, six tall men came in bearing a coffin between the… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When it grew late, six tall men came in bearing a coffin between them. " Who acts: vexation, six tall men. 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 134

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When it grew late, six tall men came in bearing a coffin between them. "

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**Who acts:** vexation, six tall men · **What happens:** grow, come, bear · **To what, where:** coffin

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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 (vexation, six tall men), 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:pg11027:9:134
# text = When it grew late, six tall men came in bearing a coffin between them. "
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | vexation |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | six tall men |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund | six tall men *not said here* | a coffin |  |  |  | between dollars *= dollar* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient |

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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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