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title: So they went to the water together, and just then there were some of… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they went to the water together, and just then there were some of the small fleecy clouds in the blue sky, which are called little lambs, and they were reflected in the water, whereupon the peasants cried: ‘We already see the sheep down below!’ Who acts: peasants, We. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 89

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So they went to the water together, and just then there were some of the small fleecy clouds in the blue sky, which are called little lambs, and they were reflected in the water, whereupon the peasants cried: ‘We already see the sheep down below!’

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**Who acts:** peasants, We · **What happens:** go, call, reflect, cry, see · **To what, where:** water, small fleecy clouds, peasants, sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, We), 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:pg2591:28:89
# text = So they went to the water together, and just then there were some of the small fleecy clouds in the blue sky, which are called little lambs, and they were reflected in the water, whereupon the peasants cried: ‘We already see the sheep down below!’
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	fleecy	fleecy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
44	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	already	already	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	down	down	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	below	below	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | peasants *= peasant* |  |  | the water |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | the small fleecy clouds in the blue sky |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | peasants *= peasant* |  | the water |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the peasants |  |  |  |  | whereupon *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | present | We | the sheep |  |  |  | below *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus |

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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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