--- title: Just as he was falling asleep, he heard two men passing by, chatting… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Just as he was falling asleep, he heard two men passing by, chatting together; and one said to the other, ‘How can we rob that rich parson’s house of his silver and gold?’ Who acts: Tom, two men, one, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, two men, one, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:25:42 # text = Just as he was falling asleep, he heard two men passing by, chatting together; and one said to the other, ‘How can we rob that rich parson’s house of his silver and gold?’ 1 Just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 6 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 chatting chat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 16 together together ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 rob rob VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 30 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 31 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 parson parson NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past · progressive | Tom | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | past | Tom | two men | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 3 | **pass by** | gerund | two men *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | two men *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one | | | | | to the other | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 6 | **rob** | can | we | that rich parson's house of Tom's silver and gold | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Source | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/43/) - ↑ back to [Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/)