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title: Looking out from his hut one day he saw three robbers fighting and h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking out from his hut one day he saw three robbers fighting and he called out to them, ‘God be with you.’ Who acts: castle, three robbers, God. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 73

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Looking out from his hut one day he saw three robbers fighting and he called out to them, ‘God be with you.’

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**Who acts:** castle, three robbers, God · **What happens:** look out, see, fight, call out, be · **To what, where:** hut, robbers · **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 (castle, three robbers, God), 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:pg2591:47:73
# text = Looking out from his hut one day he saw three robbers fighting and he called out to them, ‘God be with you.’
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | gerund | castle *not said here* |  |  | castle's hut | day |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | castle |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund | three robbers |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | castle |  | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | God |  |  |  |  | with you | 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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