--- title: Then the boy called out for the third time, but it produced no effec… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then the boy called out for the third time, but it produced no effect; so, making a spring, he threw the ghost down the stairs, so that it rolled ten steps, and then lay motionless in a corner. Who acts: boy, stone. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [Oh, If I Could But Shiver!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/) / 28 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 28 Then the boy called out for the third time, but it produced no effect; so, making a spring, he threw the ghost down the stairs, so that it rolled ten steps, and then lay motionless in a corner. **Who acts:** boy, stone · **What happens:** call out, produce, make, throw, roll, lie · **To what, where:** boy, effect, ghost, ten steps, corner 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 (boy, stone), 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:pg11027:9:28 # text = Then the boy called out for the third time, but it produced no effect; so, making a spring, he threw the ghost down the stairs, so that it rolled ten steps, and then lay motionless in a corner. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 produced produce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 down down ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 34 mark _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 35 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 40 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 41 motionless motionless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | | the boy *not said here* | | | time | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **produce** | past | the boy | no effect | | | then | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result | | 3 | **make** | gerund | the boy *not said here* | | | | spring | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **throw** | past | boy | the ghost | | | | down the stairs | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Theme | | 5 | **roll** | past | stone | ten steps | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location step=Theme | | 6 | **lie** | past | the boy *not said here* | | | a corner | then | motionless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/29/) - ↑ back to [Oh, If I Could But Shiver!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/)