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title: But the wolf found them all, and used no great ceremony; one after t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the wolf found them all, and used no great ceremony; one after the other he swallowed them down his throat. Who acts: wolf, one. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 25

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But the wolf found them all, and used no great ceremony; one after the other he swallowed them down his throat.

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**Who acts:** wolf, one · **What happens:** find, use, swallow down · **To what, where:** kitchen, great ceremony

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, one), 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:pg2591:35:25
# text = But the wolf found them all, and used no great ceremony; one after the other he swallowed them down his throat.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the wolf | kitchen |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | past | the wolf *not said here* | no great ceremony |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Patient |
| 3 | **swallow down** | past | one after the other | kitchen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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