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title: As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener’s son jumped up and shot an arrow at it. Who acts: son, bird, that. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grim
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 7

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As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener’s son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.

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**Who acts:** son, bird, that · **What happens:** strike, hear, come, fly, be, snap · **To what, where:** twelve, rustling noise, air, arrow

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, bird, that), 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:pg2591:2:7
# text = As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener’s son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	snapping	snap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	shot	shot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	conj	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past |  | twelve |  |  |  | as the clock | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | past | son | a rustling noise |  | the air |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | a bird |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | a bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | of pure gold | tree rules |
| 6 | **snap** | past · progressive | bird |  |  |  |  | at one of the apples with bird's beak | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at one=Location |
| 7 | **jump up** | past | the gardener's son |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **shot** | infinitive | the gardener's son *not said here* | a arrow |  |  |  | at bird | tree rules |

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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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