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title: The wind blew the bodies against one another, so that they swung bac… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The wind blew the bodies against one another, so that they swung backward and forward, and he thought, "If I am cold here below by the fire, how must they freeze above!" Who acts: wind, bodies. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 56

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The wind blew the bodies against one another, so that they swung backward and forward, and he thought, "If I am cold here below by the fire, how must they freeze above!"

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**Who acts:** wind, bodies · **What happens:** blow, swing, think, be, freeze · **To what, where:** bodies · **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 (wind, bodies), 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:pg11027:9:56
# text = The wind blew the bodies against one another, so that they swung backward and forward, and he thought, "If I am cold here below by the fire, how must they freeze above!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	below	below	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
37	above	above	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the wind | the bodies |  |  |  | against one | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 2 | **swing** | past | bodies *= body* |  |  |  |  | backward *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | wind |  |  | here |  | by the fire; below, cold *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **freeze** *in a quote* | must | bodies *= body* |  |  |  |  | above *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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