--- title: One day, as he was roaming along in a brown study, thinking with no… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: One day, as he was roaming along in a brown study, thinking with no great comfort on what he had been and what he now was, and was like to be, all on a sudden there stood before him a little, rough-looking, black dwarf. Who acts: news, all. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:51:4 # text = One day, as he was roaming along in a brown study, thinking with no great comfort on what he had been and what he now was, and was like to be, all on a sudden there stood before him a little, rough-looking, black dwarf. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 roaming roam VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 along along ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 17 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 conj _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 27 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 acl:relcl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 nsubj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 nmod _ _ 40 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 41 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 42 before before ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roam** | past · progressive | news | | | a brown study | day | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in study=Trajectory | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | news *not said here* | | | | | with no great comfort | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | news | | | | now | like *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | news *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | past | all | a little | | | before news | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | | 6 | **look** | gerund | all *not said here* | black dwarf | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/51/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/51/5/) - ↑ back to [The King of the Golden Mountain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/51/)