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title: The willow-wren with his army also came flying through the air with… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The willow-wren with his army also came flying through the air with such a humming, and whirring, and swarming that every one was uneasy and afraid, and on both sides they advanced against each other. Who acts: willow wren, one, animals. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 28

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The willow-wren with his army also came flying through the air with such a humming, and whirring, and swarming that every one was uneasy and afraid, and on both sides they advanced against each other.

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**Who acts:** willow wren, one, animals · **What happens:** come, fly, swarm, be, advance · **To what, where:** air, sides

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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 (willow wren, one, animals), 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:pg2591:12:28
# text = The willow-wren with his army also came flying through the air with such a humming, and whirring, and swarming that every one was uneasy and afraid, and on both sides they advanced against each other.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	wren	wren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	humming	humming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	whirring	whirring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	swarming	swarm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
38	against	against	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	37	obl	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the willow wren with wren's army |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | the willow wren with wren's army *not said here* |  |  | the air |  | with such humming and whirring | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 3 | **swarm** | gerund | the willow wren with wren's army *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | every one |  |  |  |  | uneasy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | every one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **advance** | past | animals *= animal* |  |  | both sides |  | against each | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:** «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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