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title: And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the owl flew… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and meagre, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another. Who acts: sun, gloomy night, owl, moment. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Gr
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 25

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And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and meagre, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another.

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**Who acts:** sun, gloomy night, owl, moment, nose · **What happens:** go, come, fly, stare, meet · **To what, where:** bush, that

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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, gloomy night, owl, moment), 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:pg2591:4:25
# text = And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and meagre, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
29	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	meagre	meagre	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obj	_	_
44	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	obj	_	_
47	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the sun |  |  |  | now | down *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the gloomy night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past | the owl |  |  |  |  | into a bush *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bush=Result |
| 4 | **come** | past | a moment after the old fairy |  |  |  |  | with staring eyes; forth, pale *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **meet** | past | a nose and chin | that |  |  |  | almost *property* | 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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