--- title: Now I have you; now death comes upon you!" and taking up an iron bar… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Now I have you; now death comes upon you!" and taking up an iron bar he beat the old man until he groaned, and begged him to stop, and he would give him great riches. Who acts: I, death, iron bar, man. 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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 (I, death, iron bar, man), 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:pg11027:9:158 # text = Now I have you; now death comes upon you!" and taking up an iron bar he beat the old man until he groaned, and begged him to stop, and he would give him great riches. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 7 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 beat beat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 until until SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 groaned groan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | I | | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | present | death | | | | now | upon you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Location | | 3 | **take up** *in a quote* | gerund | death *not said here* | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **beat** *in a quote* | past | a iron bar | the old man | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | | 5 | **groan** *in a quote* | past | man | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | past | man *not said here* | | man | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **stop** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **give** *in a quote* | would | man | great riches | bar | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rich=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 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/157/) - next →: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/159/) - ↑ back to [Oh, If I Could But Shiver!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/)