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title: Then the wolf was very angry, and called Sultan ‘an old rogue,’ and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the wolf was very angry, and called Sultan ‘an old rogue,’ and swore he would have his revenge. Who acts: wolf. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 18

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Then the wolf was very angry, and called Sultan ‘an old rogue,’ and swore he would have his revenge.

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**Who acts:** wolf · **What happens:** be, call, swear, have, revenge · **To what, where:** Sultan, revenge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf), 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:pg2591:6:18
# text = Then the wolf was very angry, and called Sultan ‘an old rogue,’ and swore he would have his revenge.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rogue	rogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wolf |  |  |  | then | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | past |  |  | Sultan |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient |
| 3 | **swear** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | would | wolf | wolf's revenge |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient |
| 5 | **revenge** |  | wolf |  |  |  |  |  | nom revenge «act 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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