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title: But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as he found himself on a wide heath that would take him more than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth. Who acts: heat, noon, wide heath. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales»
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 36

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But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as he found himself on a wide heath that would take him more than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.

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**Who acts:** heat, noon, wide heath · **What happens:** grow, come on, find, take, cross, begin · **To what, where:** heat, wide heath

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heat, noon, wide heath), 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:pg2591:3:36
# text = But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as he found himself on a wide heath that would take him more than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	till	till	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	parched	parch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	clave	clave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	ccomp	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the heat |  |  |  |  | great, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come on** | past | noon |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | heat | heat |  | a wide heath |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | would | a wide heath |  | heat |  | hour |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 5 | **cross** | to-infinitive | a wide heath *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **begin** | past | heat |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | heat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **parch** | past | heat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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