--- title: She grew impatient, and seeing the ravens flying round the castle, s… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She grew impatient, and seeing the ravens flying round the castle, she opened the window, and said: ‘I wish you were a raven and would fly away, then I should have a little peace.’ Who acts: mother, ravens, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, ravens, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:47:3 # text = She grew impatient, and seeing the ravens flying round the castle, she opened the window, and said: ‘I wish you were a raven and would fly away, then I should have a little peace.’ 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 impatient impatient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 6 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ravens raven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 round round ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | mother | | | | | impatient *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | gerund | mother *not said here* | the ravens | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus | | 3 | **fly** | gerund | the ravens *not said here* | | | the castle | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round castle=Trajectory | | 4 | **open** | past | mother | the window | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **wish** | present | I | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **is a** | past | you | a raven | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **fly away** | would | I *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **have** | should | I | a little peace | | | then | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/47/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/47/4/) - ↑ back to [The Raven](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/47/)