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title: The student looked about everywhere; and seeing no one, and not know… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The student looked about everywhere; and seeing no one, and not knowing where the voice came from, cried out, ‘Who calls me?’ Who acts: student, voice. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 25

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The student looked about everywhere; and seeing no one, and not knowing where the voice came from, cried out, ‘Who calls me?’

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**Who acts:** student, voice · **What happens:** look, see, not know, come, cry out, call · **To what, where:** one, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, voice), 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:pg2591:39:25
# text = The student looked about everywhere; and seeing no one, and not knowing where the voice came from, cried out, ‘Who calls me?’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the student |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | the student *not said here* | no one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **know** | gerund | the student *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | past | the voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cry out** *speech: express* | participle | the student *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **call** | present |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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