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title: Another told him that he had found a cloak which rendered its wearer… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Another told him that he had found a cloak which rendered its wearer invisible; and the third had caught a horse which would carry its rider over any obstacle, and even up the glass mountain. Who acts: Another, God, cloak, horse. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven, with it
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 78

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Another told him that he had found a cloak which rendered its wearer invisible; and the third had caught a horse which would carry its rider over any obstacle, and even up the glass mountain.

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**Who acts:** Another, God, cloak, horse · **What happens:** tell, find, render, catch, carry · **To what, where:** God, cloak, wearer, third, rider, obstacle · **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 (Another, God, cloak, horse), 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:pg2591:47:78
# text = Another told him that he had found a cloak which rendered its wearer invisible; and the third had caught a horse which would carry its rider over any obstacle, and even up the glass mountain.
1	Another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rendered	render	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wearer	wearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Another |  | God |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect | God | a cloak |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Topic |
| 3 | **render** | past | a cloak | cloak's wearer |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wearer=Theme |
| 4 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive |  | the third |  |  |  | up the glass mountain | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary horse=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | would | a horse | third's rider |  | any obstacle |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Theme |

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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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