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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 4

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Each wanted to be first at drawing the water, and so they were in such a hurry that all let their pitchers fall into the well, and they stood very foolishly looking at one another, and did not know what to do, for none dared go home.

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**Who acts:** Each, sons, pitchers, none · **What happens:** want, be, draw, let, fall, stand · **To what, where:** water, hurry, well · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, sons, pitchers, none), 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:pg2591:53:4
# text = Each wanted to be first at drawing the water, and so they were in such a hurry that all let their pitchers fall into the well, and they stood very foolishly looking at one another, and did not know what to do, for none dared go home.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	pitchers	pitcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	xcomp	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	foolishly	foolishly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
34	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	obl	_	_
37	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
43	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	45	obj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	49	nsubj	_	_
49	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	advcl	_	_
50	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
51	home	home	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Each |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Each *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw** | gerund | Each *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | sons *= son* |  |  | such hurry |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | present |  | such hurry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | present | sons's pitchers |  |  |  |  | into the well *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result |
| 7 | **stand** | past | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | foolishly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **look** | gerund | sons *= son* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at one | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **know** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 11 | **dare** | participle | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 12 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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