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title: The flies, however, who understood no German, would not be turned aw… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The flies, however, who understood no German, would not be turned away, but came back again in ever-increasing companies. Who acts: flies. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 13

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The flies, however, who understood no German, would not be turned away, but came back again in ever-increasing companies.

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**Who acts:** flies · **What happens:** understand, not turn away, come back, increase · **To what, where:** German, companies

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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 (flies), 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:pg2591:19:13
# text = The flies, however, who understood no German, would not be turned away, but came back again in ever-increasing companies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
25	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | past | the flies | no German |  |  |  | however *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer german=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **turn away** | would · passive | the flies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **come back** | past | the flies *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **increase** | gerund | the flies *not said here* | companies |  |  | ever |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer company=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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