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title: They stopped when they heard the call, but looking round and seeing… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They stopped when they heard the call, but looking round and seeing nobody, they went on again with their fighting, which now became more furious. Who acts: robbers, fighting. 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 74

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They stopped when they heard the call, but looking round and seeing nobody, they went on again with their fighting, which now became more furious.

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**Who acts:** robbers, fighting · **What happens:** stop, hear, look round, see, go on, become · **To what, where:** call, nobody

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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 (robbers, fighting), 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:pg2591:47:74
# text = They stopped when they heard the call, but looking round and seeing nobody, they went on again with their fighting, which now became more furious.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hear** | past | robbers *= robber* | the call |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look round** | gerund | robbers *= robber* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | robbers *= robber* *not said here* | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go on** | past | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  | again | with robbers's fighting | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **become** | past | robbers's fighting |  |  |  | now | furious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **fight** |  | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fighting «act transitive»: poss=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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