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title: About a month afterwards he went upstairs into a lumber-room to look… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: About a month afterwards he went upstairs into a lumber-room to look for some old iron, that he might sell it and raise a little money; and there, instead of his iron, he saw a large pile of gold lying on the floor. Who acts: money, large pile. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 13

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About a month afterwards he went upstairs into a lumber-room to look for some old iron, that he might sell it and raise a little money; and there, instead of his iron, he saw a large pile of gold lying on the floor.

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**Who acts:** money, large pile · **What happens:** go, look, sell, raise, see, lie · **To what, where:** lumber room, iron, little money, large pile, floor

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, large pile), 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:pg2591:51:13
# text = About a month afterwards he went upstairs into a lumber-room to look for some old iron, that he might sell it and raise a little money; and there, instead of his iron, he saw a large pile of gold lying on the floor.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	lumber	lumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	raise	raise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	acl	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | money |  |  | a lumber room | month | instead money's iron; about, afterwards, upstairs *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for some old iron | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for iron=Theme |
| 3 | **sell** | might | money | iron |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **raise** | infinitive | money *not said here* | a little money |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past | money | a large pile of gold |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pile=Stimulus |
| 6 | **lie** | gerund | a large pile of gold *not said here* |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |

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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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