--- title: And as the wind knocked the hanged men against each other, and they… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And as the wind knocked the hanged men against each other, and they moved backwards and forwards, he thought to himself: ‘If you shiver below by the fire, how those up above must freeze and suffer!’ Who acts: wind, sons, you, those. 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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 (wind, sons, you, those), 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:pg2591:57:66 # text = And as the wind knocked the hanged men against each other, and they moved backwards and forwards, he thought to himself: ‘If you shiver below by the fire, how those up above must freeze and suffer!’ 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 hanged hanged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 against against ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 8 nmod _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 forwards forwards ADV RB _ 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 If if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 shiver shiver VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 29 below below ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 35 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 39 nsubj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 above above ADP IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 freeze freeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 suffer suffer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knock** | past | the wind | the hanged men | | each | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent man=Theme against each=Destination | | 2 | **move** | past | sons *= son* | | | | | backwards *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | wind | | wind | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **shiver** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | by the fire; below *property* | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **freeze** | must | those | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **suffer** | infinitive | those *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/67/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/)