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title: Then he called through the door to his wife: ‘Wife, come out; here i… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he called through the door to his wife: ‘Wife, come out; here is a bird, come and look at it and hear how beautifully it sings.’ Who acts: father, Wife, bird, door. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 75

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Then he called through the door to his wife: ‘Wife, come out; here is a bird, come and look at it and hear how beautifully it sings.’

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**Who acts:** father, Wife, bird, door · **What happens:** call, come out, be, come, look, hear · **To what, where:** wife, door, bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Wife, bird, door), 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:pg2591:38:75
# text = Then he called through the door to his wife: ‘Wife, come out; here is a bird, come and look at it and hear how beautifully it sings.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | father |  | father's wife | the door | then |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
| 2 | **come out** | infinitive | Wife |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a bird |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | a bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | infinitive | a bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 6 | **hear** | infinitive | a bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | door |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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