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title: Scarcely had they set foot on the threshold, when Tom called out, ‘D… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Scarcely had they set foot on the threshold, when Tom called out, ‘Don’t bring me any more hay!’ Who acts: Scarcely. 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 79

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Scarcely had they set foot on the threshold, when Tom called out, ‘Don’t bring me any more hay!’

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**Who acts:** Scarcely · **What happens:** have, call out, not bring · **To what, where:** quarters, threshold, Tom, hay, me

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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 (Scarcely), 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:pg2591:25:79
# text = Scarcely had they set foot on the threshold, when Tom called out, ‘Don’t bring me any more hay!’
1	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	any	any	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Scarcely | quarters *= quarter* |  | the threshold |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | Tom |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **bring** | infinitive · do-support |  | hay | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination hay=Theme |

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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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