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title: When he awoke and found that his lady had tricked him, and left him… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he awoke and found that his lady had tricked him, and left him alone on the wild rock, he said, ‘Alas! what roguery there is in the world!’ and there he sat in great grief and fear, not knowing what to do. Who acts: sleep, roguery. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad, 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 32

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When he awoke and found that his lady had tricked him, and left him alone on the wild rock, he said, ‘Alas! what roguery there is in the world!’ and there he sat in great grief and fear, not knowing what to do.

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**Who acts:** sleep, roguery · **What happens:** awake, find, trick, leave, say, be · **To what, where:** lady, sleep, wild rock, world, great grief · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep, roguery), 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:pg2591:56:32
# text = When he awoke and found that his lady had tricked him, and left him alone on the wild rock, he said, ‘Alas! what roguery there is in the world!’ and there he sat in great grief and fear, not knowing what to do.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
29	roguery	roguery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
31	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	40	expl	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
49	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	51	obj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | sleep |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | sleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **trick** | past · perfect · passive |  | sleep's lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | past | sleep *not said here* | sleep |  | the wild rock |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on rock=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sleep |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 6 | **be** | present | roguery |  |  | the world; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
| 7 | **sit** | past | sleep |  |  | great grief and fear; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grief=Location |
| 8 | **not** **know** | gerund | sleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **do** | to-infinitive | sleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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