--- title: Shoot into the midst of them, and one will fall down dead: the cloak… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Shoot into the midst of them, and one will fall down dead: the cloak will fall too; take it, it is a wishing-cloak, and when you wear it you will find yourself at any place where you may wish to be. Who acts: Shoot, cloak, you. 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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 (Shoot, cloak, you), 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:pg2591:56:4 # text = Shoot into the midst of them, and one will fall down dead: the cloak will fall too; take it, it is a wishing-cloak, and when you wear it you will find yourself at any place where you may wish to be. 1 Shoot shoot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 wishing wishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 32 when when SCONJ WRB _ 34 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 39 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 obj _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 42 det _ _ 42 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 46 advmod _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 acl:relcl _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall down** | future | Shoot into the midst of birds | | | | | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | future | the cloak | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | the cloak *not said here* | cloak | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | cloak | a wishing cloak | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wear** | present | you | cloak | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **find** | future | you | yourself | | any place | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme at place=Asset | | 7 | **wish** | may | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **be** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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/pg2591/56/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/5/) - ↑ back to [The Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/)