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title: From that time forth, no one would any longer venture into the fores… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From that time forth, no one would any longer venture into the forest, and it lay there in deep stillness and solitude, and nothing was seen of it, but sometimes an eagle or a hawk flying over it. Who acts: forest, hawk. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its depende
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 6

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From that time forth, no one would any longer venture into the forest, and it lay there in deep stillness and solitude, and nothing was seen of it, but sometimes an eagle or a hawk flying over it.

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**Who acts:** forest, hawk · **What happens:** lie, see, fly · **To what, where:** deep stillness, nothing, forest

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, hawk), 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:pg2591:59:6
# text = From that time forth, no one would any longer venture into the forest, and it lay there in deep stillness and solitude, and nothing was seen of it, but sometimes an eagle or a hawk flying over it.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	any	any	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	venture	venture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
41	over	over	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | forest |  |  | deep stillness and solitude; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stillness=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | of forest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | a hawk *not said here* |  |  | forest |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location |

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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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