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title: The fifth servant, however, crept into the stove to hear if the doct… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The fifth servant, however, crept into the stove to hear if the doctor knew still more. Who acts: doctor. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 31

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The fifth servant, however, crept into the stove to hear if the doctor knew still more.

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**Who acts:** doctor · **What happens:** creep, hear, know · **To what, where:** fifth servant, stove, more

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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:pg2591:52:31
# text = The fifth servant, however, crept into the stove to hear if the doctor knew still more.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past |  | the fifth servant |  | the stove |  | however *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into stove=Destination |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the doctor | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=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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