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title: A third time he called out, ‘God be with you,’ and then thinking he… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A third time he called out, ‘God be with you,’ and then thinking he should like to know the cause of dispute between the three men, he went out and asked them why they were fighting so angrily with one another. Who acts: God, robbers. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven, wi
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 76

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A third time he called out, ‘God be with you,’ and then thinking he should like to know the cause of dispute between the three men, he went out and asked them why they were fighting so angrily with one another.

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**Who acts:** God, robbers · **What happens:** call out, be, think, like, know, go out · **To what, where:** third time, cause, God, robbers, dispute · **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 (God, robbers), 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:pg2591:47:76
# text = A third time he called out, ‘God be with you,’ and then thinking he should like to know the cause of dispute between the three men, he went out and asked them why they were fighting so angrily with one another.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
34	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	obl	_	_
46	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | God | a third time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent time=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **like** | should | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | the cause of dispute between the three men |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go out** | past | God | God *not said here* |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | God *not said here* |  | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 8 | **fight** | past · progressive | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  |  | with one; angrily *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent |
| 9 | **cause** |  |  | dispute between the three men |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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