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title: In doing this, he saw afar off something bright and shining and call… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In doing this, he saw afar off something bright and shining and calling to his companions said, ‘There must be a house no great way off, for I see a light.’ Who acts: ass, companions, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 24

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In doing this, he saw afar off something bright and shining and calling to his companions said, ‘There must be a house no great way off, for I see a light.’

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**Who acts:** ass, companions, I · **What happens:** do, see, shine, call, say, be · **To what, where:** this, house, light · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ass, companions, I), 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:pg2591:5:24
# text = In doing this, he saw afar off something bright and shining and calling to his companions said, ‘There must be a house no great way off, for I see a light.’
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	off	off	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | ass *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** | past | ass |  |  |  |  | afar *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | ass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | gerund | ass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ass's companions |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | infinitive | ass *not said here* | a house |  |  |  | off *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | present | I | a light |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |

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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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