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title: After this still more came, each with one tail more than the other,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After this still more came, each with one tail more than the other, but they were all turned away, until at last one came who had nine tails, like old Mr Fox. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 27

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After this still more came, each with one tail more than the other, but they were all turned away, until at last one came who had nine tails, like old Mr Fox.

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**What happens:** come, turn away, have · **To what, where:** each, tails, nine tails

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2591:54:27
# text = After this still more came, each with one tail more than the other, but they were all turned away, until at last one came who had nine tails, like old Mr Fox.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
30	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | each |  |  | after this; still |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn away** | past · passive |  | tails *= tail* |  |  |  | all, away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at last one | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past |  | nine tails |  |  |  | like old Mr Fox | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |

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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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