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title: Then he was very angry, and went without his supper to bed; but when… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he was very angry, and went without his supper to bed; but when he laid his head on the pillow, the pin ran into his cheek: at this he became quite furious, and, jumping up, would have run out of the house; but when he came to the door, the millstone fell down on his head, and killed him on the
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 12

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Then he was very angry, and went without his supper to bed; but when he laid his head on the pillow, the pin ran into his cheek: at this he became quite furious, and, jumping up, would have run out of the house; but when he came to the door, the millstone fell down on his head, and killed him on the spot.

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**Who acts:** egg, pin, millstone · **What happens:** be, go, lay, run, become, jump up · **To what, where:** bed, head, pillow, cheek, this, house

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (egg, pin, millstone), 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:pg2591:17:12
# text = Then he was very angry, and went without his supper to bed; but when he laid his head on the pillow, the pin ran into his cheek: at this he became quite furious, and, jumping up, would have run out of the house; but when he came to the door, the millstone fell down on his head, and killed him on the spot.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
36	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux	_	_
46	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
52	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
53	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	55	advmod	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	advcl	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	millstone	millstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
63	down	down	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
64	on	on	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	conj	_	_
70	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	obj	_	_
71	on	on	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | egg |  |  |  | then | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | egg *not said here* |  |  | bed |  | without egg's supper | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay** | past | egg | egg's head |  | the pillow |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on pillow=Destination |
| 4 | **run** | past | the pin |  |  |  |  | into egg's cheek *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cheek=Result |
| 5 | **become** | past | egg |  |  | this |  | furious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **jump up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **run** | would · perfect | egg *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory |
| 8 | **come** | past | egg |  |  | the door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **fall down** | past | the millstone |  |  | egg's head |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
| 10 | **kill** | past | the millstone *not said here* | egg |  | the spot |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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