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title: So his compassion was excited, and, contriving a ladder, he mounted,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So his compassion was excited, and, contriving a ladder, he mounted, and, unloosening them one after another, he brought down all seven. Who acts: compassion, wind. 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 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 57

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So his compassion was excited, and, contriving a ladder, he mounted, and, unloosening them one after another, he brought down all seven.

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**Who acts:** compassion, wind · **What happens:** be, contrive, mount, unloosen, bring down · **To what, where:** ladder, bodies, seven

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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 (compassion, wind), 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:pg11027:9:57
# text = So his compassion was excited, and, contriving a ladder, he mounted, and, unloosening them one after another, he brought down all seven.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	contriving	contrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	ccomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	unloosening	unloosen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wind's compassion |  |  |  |  | excited *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **contrive** | gerund | wind *not said here* | a ladder |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Result |
| 3 | **mount** | past | wind |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **unloosen** | gerund | wind *not said here* | bodies *= body* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring down** | past | wind | seven |  |  |  | down *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent seven=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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