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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 83

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Then he fell upon them with the stick and beat them one after another, crying, ‘There, you idle vagabonds, you have got what you deserve; are you satisfied now!’

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**Who acts:** thing, you · **What happens:** fall, beat, cry, get, deserve, be · **To what, where:** horses

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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 (thing, you), 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:pg2591:47:83
# text = Then he fell upon them with the stick and beat them one after another, crying, ‘There, you idle vagabonds, you have got what you deserve; are you satisfied now!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
22	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	vagabonds	vagabond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | thing |  |  |  | then | upon horses *= horse*; with the stick | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 2 | **beat** | infinitive | thing *not said here* | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent they=Patient one=Result |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | present · perfect | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **deserve** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  | now | satisfied *property* | 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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