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description: The sun was setting fast, and already half of its circle had sunk behind the hill: Jorindel on a sudden looked behind him, and saw through the bushes that they had, without knowing it, sat down close under the old walls of the castle. Who acts: sun, doves. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jaco
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 12

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The sun was setting fast, and already half of its circle had sunk behind the hill: Jorindel on a sudden looked behind him, and saw through the bushes that they had, without knowing it, sat down close under the old walls of the castle.

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**Who acts:** sun, doves · **What happens:** set, sink, look, see, have, know · **To what, where:** half, hill, bushes, sun, old walls

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, doves), 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:pg2591:4:12
# text = The sun was setting fast, and already half of its circle had sunk behind the hill: Jorindel on a sudden looked behind him, and saw through the bushes that they had, without knowing it, sat down close under the old walls of the castle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	already	already	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
15	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Jorindel	Jorindel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
24	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
41	down	down	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
43	under	under	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **sink** | past · perfect · passive |  | half of sun's circle |  | the hill |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | behind Jorinda | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past |  |  |  | the bushes |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** | past | doves *= dove* | the bushes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 6 | **know** | gerund |  | sun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 7 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  | the old walls of the castle |  | close, down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wall=Location |

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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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