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title: When day broke, and the battle was to begin, all the four-footed ani… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When day broke, and the battle was to begin, all the four-footed animals came running up with such a noise that the earth trembled. Who acts: footed animals, battle, earth. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 27

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When day broke, and the battle was to begin, all the four-footed animals came running up with such a noise that the earth trembled.

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**Who acts:** footed animals, battle, earth · **What happens:** break, begin, come, run up, tremble · **To what, where:** noise

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footed animals, battle, earth), 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:pg2591:12:27
# text = When day broke, and the battle was to begin, all the four-footed animals came running up with such a noise that the earth trembled.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | all footed animals *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the battle |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | past | all footed animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run up** | gerund | all footed animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with such noise | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with noise=Material |
| 5 | **tremble** | past | the earth | such noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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