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title: The howling of the wild dogs was henceforth heard no more; they had… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The howling of the wild dogs was henceforth heard no more; they had disappeared, and the country was freed from the trouble. Who acts: dogs, wild dogs. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 27

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The howling of the wild dogs was henceforth heard no more; they had disappeared, and the country was freed from the trouble.

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**Who acts:** dogs, wild dogs · **What happens:** hear, disappear, free, howl · **To what, where:** howling, country, trouble

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, wild dogs), 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:pg2591:41:27
# text = The howling of the wild dogs was henceforth heard no more; they had disappeared, and the country was freed from the trouble.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	howling	howling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the howling of the wild dogs |  |  |  | henceforth *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **disappear** | past · perfect | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **free** | past · passive |  | the country |  | the trouble |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 4 | **howl** |  | the wild dogs |  |  |  |  |  | nom howling «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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