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title: How dark it was inside the wolf’; and after that the aged grandmothe… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: How dark it was inside the wolf’; and after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Who acts: stomach, aged grandmother. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 51

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How dark it was inside the wolf’; and after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe.

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**Who acts:** stomach, aged grandmother · **What happens:** be, come out, breathe · **To what, where:** wolf

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stomach, aged grandmother), 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:pg2591:23:51
# text = How dark it was inside the wolf’; and after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | stomach |  |  | the wolf |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come out** | past | the aged grandmother |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **breathe** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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