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title: In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to where the flies w… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to where the flies were sitting in great numbers, and they were attracted and descended on it in hosts. Who acts: smell, flies, sweet jam. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 11

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In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to where the flies were sitting in great numbers, and they were attracted and descended on it in hosts.

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**Who acts:** smell, flies, sweet jam · **What happens:** rise, sit, attract, descend, smell · **To what, where:** meantime, great numbers, flies, smell

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, flies, sweet jam), 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:pg2591:19:11
# text = In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to where the flies were sitting in great numbers, and they were attracted and descended on it in hosts.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the smell of the sweet jam |  |  | the meantime |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | the flies |  |  | great numbers |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in number=Location |
| 3 | **attract** | past · passive |  | flies *= fly* |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **descend** | participle |  |  |  | smell |  | in hosts | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **smell** |  | the sweet jam |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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:** «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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