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title: But no sooner had he quieted these two and thought of sitting down a… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But no sooner had he quieted these two and thought of sitting down again by his fire, than there came out of every hole and corner black cats and black dogs with glowing chains, continually more and more, so that he could not hide himself. Who acts: cold. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jac
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 99

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But no sooner had he quieted these two and thought of sitting down again by his fire, than there came out of every hole and corner black cats and black dogs with glowing chains, continually more and more, so that he could not hide himself.

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**Who acts:** cold · **What happens:** have, quiet, think, sit down, come out, glow · **To what, where:** two, hole, cold

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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 (cold), 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:pg11027:9:99
# text = But no sooner had he quieted these two and thought of sitting down again by his fire, than there came out of every hole and corner black cats and black dogs with glowing chains, continually more and more, so that he could not hide himself.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	quieted	quiet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	47	mark	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
48	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **quiet** | past | cold | this two |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent two=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | cold *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit down** | gerund | cold *not said here* |  |  |  | again | by cold's fire; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 5 | **come out** | past |  | every hole and corner |  | there |  | with glowing chains | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result |
| 6 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **hide** | could | cold | cold |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 8 | **fire** |  | cold |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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