--- title: He now flew into a very great passion, and, suspecting the company w… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He now flew into a very great passion, and, suspecting the company who had come in the night before, he went to look after them, but they were all off; so he swore that he never again would take in such a troop of vagabonds, who ate a great deal, paid no reckoning, and gave him nothing for his troub --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [1. How They Went to the Mountains to E…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/) / 19 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 19 He now flew into a very great passion, and, suspecting the company who had come in the night before, he went to look after them, but they were all off; so he swore that he never again would take in such a troop of vagabonds, who ate a great deal, paid no reckoning, and gave him nothing for his trouble but their apish tricks. **Who acts:** landlord, company, heads, vagabonds · **What happens:** fly, suspect, come, go, look, be · **To what, where:** great passion, company, troop, great deal, reckoning, nothing This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, company, heads, vagabonds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:16:19 # text = He now flew into a very great passion, and, suspecting the company who had come in the night before, he went to look after them, but they were all off; so he swore that he never again would take in such a troop of vagabonds, who ate a great deal, paid no reckoning, and gave him nothing for his trouble but their apish tricks. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 passion passion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 suspecting suspect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 before before ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 after after ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 all all ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 off off ADV RB _ 24 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 swore swear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 41 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 again again ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 ccomp _ _ 45 in in ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 48 det:predet _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 troop troop NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 vagabonds vagabond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 53 nsubj _ _ 53 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 acl:relcl _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 conj _ _ 59 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 60 det _ _ 60 reckoning reckoning NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 64 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 iobj _ _ 65 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 63 obj _ _ 66 for for ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 68 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nmod _ _ 69 but but CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 70 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 72 nmod:poss _ _ 71 apish apish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 amod _ _ 72 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | landlord | | | | now | into a great passion *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into passion=Result | | 2 | **suspect** | gerund | landlord *not said here* | the company | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent company=Attribute | | 3 | **come** | past · perfect | the company | | | | night | before *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | landlord | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | landlord *not said here* | | | | after heads *= head* | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | past | heads *= head* | | | | | all, off *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **swear** | past | landlord | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **take in** | would | landlord | such troop of vagabonds | | | again | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troop=Theme | | 9 | **eat** | past | vagabonds | a great deal | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | | 10 | **pay** | past | vagabonds *not said here* | no reckoning | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reckoning=Asset | | 11 | **give** | past | landlord *not said here* | nothing | landlord | | | for landlord's trouble | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme for trouble=Asset | | 12 | **trouble** | | landlord | | | | | | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 13 | **trick** | | heads *= head* | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/18/) - next →: [2. 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