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title: He found that the light came from a house which looked smaller than… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He found that the light came from a house which looked smaller than it really was, from the contrast of its height with that of an immense giant who stood in front of it. Who acts: man, light, house, immense giant. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven, with its dependency tr
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 49

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He found that the light came from a house which looked smaller than it really was, from the contrast of its height with that of an immense giant who stood in front of it.

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**Who acts:** man, light, house, immense giant · **What happens:** find, come, look, be, stand · **To what, where:** house, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man, light, house, immense giant), 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:pg2591:47:49
# text = He found that the light came from a house which looked smaller than it really was, from the contrast of its height with that of an immense giant who stood in front of it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the light |  |  | a house |  | from the contrast of house's height with that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from house=Initial\_Location from contrast=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | past | a house |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | past | light |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | past | a immense giant |  |  | front of house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=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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