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title: But when he had made away with these two, and was about to sit down… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he had made away with these two, and was about to sit down again by his fire, out from every hole and corner came black cats and black dogs with red-hot chains, and more and more of them came until he could no longer move, and they yelled horribly, and got on his fire, pulled it to pieces, 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 117

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But when he had made away with these two, and was about to sit down again by his fire, out from every hole and corner came black cats and black dogs with red-hot chains, and more and more of them came until he could no longer move, and they yelled horribly, and got on his fire, pulled it to pieces, and tried to put it out.

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**Who acts:** fire, hole, more, cats · **What happens:** make away, be, sit down, come, move, yell · **To what, where:** black cats, fire, hole, pieces

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, hole, more, cats), 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:pg2591:57:117
# text = But when he had made away with these two, and was about to sit down again by his fire, out from every hole and corner came black cats and black dogs with red-hot chains, and more and more of them came until he could no longer move, and they yelled horribly, and got on his fire, pulled it to pieces, and tried to put it out.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
29	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
41	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	46	nsubj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
46	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
47	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
50	no	no	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	52	advmod	_	_
52	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	yelled	yell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	parataxis	_	_
57	horribly	horribly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	advcl	_	_
61	on	on	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
65	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	conj	_	_
66	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	obj	_	_
67	to	to	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
71	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	conj	_	_
72	to	to	PART	TO	_	73	mark	_	_
73	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	71	xcomp	_	_
74	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	73	obj	_	_
75	out	out	ADP	RP	_	73	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make away** | past · perfect | fire |  |  |  |  | with this two; away *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | fire *not said here* |  |  |  | again | by fire's fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | every hole and corner | black cats and black dogs with red hot chains |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | more |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **move** | could | fire |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **yell** *speech: express* | past | cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  | horribly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **get** | past | cats *= cat* *not said here* |  |  | fire's fire |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on fire=Source |
| 9 | **pull** | past | cats *= cat* *not said here* | hole |  | pieces |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to piece=Destination |
| 10 | **try** | past | cats *= cat* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 11 | **put out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | cats *= cat* *not said here* | hole |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 12 | **fire** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 13 | **fire** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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