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title: When midnight came, an uproar and noise of tumbling about was heard;… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When midnight came, an uproar and noise of tumbling about was heard; at first it was low, but it grew louder and louder. Who acts: midnight, noise. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 138

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When midnight came, an uproar and noise of tumbling about was heard; at first it was low, but it grew louder and louder.

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**Who acts:** midnight, noise · **What happens:** come, tumble, hear, be, grow · **To what, where:** uproar

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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 (midnight, noise), 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:pg2591:57:138
# text = When midnight came, an uproar and noise of tumbling about was heard; at first it was low, but it grew louder and louder.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	obl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | midnight |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tumble** | gerund | noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **hear** | past · passive |  | a uproar and noise |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | noise |  |  |  |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | past | noise |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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