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title: Then he poked and blew the fire, and set them round that they might… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he poked and blew the fire, and set them round that they might warm themselves; but as they sat still without moving their clothing caught fire. Who acts: wind, bodies. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 58

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Then he poked and blew the fire, and set them round that they might warm themselves; but as they sat still without moving their clothing caught fire.

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**Who acts:** wind, bodies · **What happens:** poke, blow, set, warm, sit, move · **To what, where:** fire, bodies, clothing

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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:pg11027:9:58
# text = Then he poked and blew the fire, and set them round that they might warm themselves; but as they sat still without moving their clothing caught fire.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	poked	poke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke** | past | wind |  |  |  | then |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **blow** | past | wind *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | wind *not said here* | bodies *= body* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
| 4 | **warm** | might | bodies *= body* | bodies *= body* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 5 | **sit** | past | bodies *= body* |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **move** | gerund | bodies *= body* *not said here* | bodies's clothing |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent clothing=Theme fire=Result |
| 7 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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