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title: The guest heard the sharpening, and hurried down the steps again as… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 32

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The guest heard the sharpening, and hurried down the steps again as fast as he could.

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**Who acts:** guest · **What happens:** hear, sharpen, hurry

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guest), 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:pg2591:26:32
# text = The guest heard the sharpening, and hurried down the steps again as fast as he could.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the guest |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sharpen** | gerund | the guest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hurry** | participle | the guest *not said here* |  |  |  | again | down the steps; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=Trajectory |

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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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