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title: Now the cook lay in the next room; and hearing a noise she raised he… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the cook lay in the next room; and hearing a noise she raised herself up in her bed and listened. Who acts: cook. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 57

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Now the cook lay in the next room; and hearing a noise she raised herself up in her bed and listened.

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**Who acts:** cook · **What happens:** lie, hear, raise up, listen · **To what, where:** next room, noise, cook, bed

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook), 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:pg2591:25:57
# text = Now the cook lay in the next room; and hearing a noise she raised herself up in her bed and listened.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the cook |  |  | the next room | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | the cook *not said here* | a noise |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 3 | **raise up** | past | cook | cook |  | cook's bed |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in bed=Destination |
| 4 | **listen** | past | cook *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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