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title: When the hour came round again he went as usual on to the tan-heap i… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the hour came round again he went as usual on to the tan-heap in the garden to await the king’s daughter, but he felt even more overcome with weariness than on the two previous days, and throwing himself down, he slept like a log. Who acts: hour, man. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jaco
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 34

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When the hour came round again he went as usual on to the tan-heap in the garden to await the king’s daughter, but he felt even more overcome with weariness than on the two previous days, and throwing himself down, he slept like a log.

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**Who acts:** hour, man · **What happens:** come round, go, await, feel, overcome, throw down · **To what, where:** tan heap, daughter, man

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, man), 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:pg2591:47:34
# text = When the hour came round again he went as usual on to the tan-heap in the garden to await the king’s daughter, but he felt even more overcome with weariness than on the two previous days, and throwing himself down, he slept like a log.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	tan	tan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	await	await	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	than	than	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
39	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
43	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
44	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	down	down	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come round** | past | the hour |  |  |  | again | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | man |  |  | the tan heap in the garden |  | as usual | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on heap=Location |
| 3 | **await** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the king's daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **overcome** | present | man *not said here* |  |  |  | day | with weariness | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **throw down** | gerund | man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 7 | **sleep** | past | man |  |  |  |  | like a log | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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