---
title: But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole tw… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness. Who acts: Red. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/59/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/) / 59

# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 59

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Red · **What happens:** not speak, open, jump, intend, wait, go · **To what, where:** door, last, grandmother, darkness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Red), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2591:23:59
# text = But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	stole	stole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	thrice	thrice	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
21	round	round	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
28	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
40	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
41	home	home	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	49	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
50	after	after	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	conj	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Red |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive | Red *not said here* | the door |  |  |  | the grey beard stole round the house *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 3 | **jump** | past | Red *not said here* |  |  | last |  | on the roof | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory |
| 4 | **intend** | gerund | Red *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wait** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Red *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | past | Red |  |  |  | evening | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **steal** | to-infinitive | Red *not said here* |  |  |  | after grandmother; then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **devour** | infinitive | Red *not said here* | grandmother |  | the darkness |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/58/)
- next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/60/)
- ↑ back to [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/)