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title: When they went into the cave, other giants were sitting there by the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they went into the cave, other giants were sitting there by the fire, and each of them had a roasted sheep in his hand and was eating it. Who acts: huntsmen, other giants, each. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 59

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When they went into the cave, other giants were sitting there by the fire, and each of them had a roasted sheep in his hand and was eating it.

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**Who acts:** huntsmen, other giants, each · **What happens:** go, sit, have, roast, eat · **To what, where:** cave, roasted sheep, hand

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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 (huntsmen, other giants, each), 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:pg2591:19:59
# text = When they went into the cave, other giants were sitting there by the fire, and each of them had a roasted sheep in his hand and was eating it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  | the cave |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | other giants |  |  | there |  | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | each | a roasted sheep |  | sheep's hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient |
| 4 | **roast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **eat** | past · progressive | huntsmen *= huntsman* *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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