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title: They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path. Who acts: sleepers. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 48

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They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path.

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**Who acts:** sleepers · **What happens:** find, scatter, sprout, grow, guide · **To what, where:** ashes, peas, ground, sleepers, moonlight

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleepers), 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:pg2591:24:48
# text = They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lentils	lentil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
20	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	guide	guide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	along	along	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | sleepers *= sleeper* | the ashes |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Topic |
| 2 | **scatter** | participle |  | the ashes *not said here* |  |  |  | by the wind | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by wind=Destination |
| 3 | **sprout** | past · perfect · passive |  | the peas and lentils |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  | the ground |  | sufficiently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above ground=Location |
| 5 | **guide** | to-infinitive |  | sleepers *= sleeper* |  | the moonlight |  | along the path | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in moonlight=Destination |

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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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