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title: Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could he… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could hear every breath he drew; till at last he came to the old tower, and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was; and there she lay, fast asleep on a couch by the window. Who acts: man, all, Briar. A sentence of «Grimm
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 36

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Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could hear every breath he drew; till at last he came to the old tower, and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was; and there she lay, fast asleep on a couch by the window.

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**Who acts:** man, all, Briar · **What happens:** go on, be, draw, come, open, lie · **To what, where:** breath, old tower, door, Briar, couch

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, all, Briar), 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:pg2591:8:36
# text = Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could hear every breath he drew; till at last he came to the old tower, and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was; and there she lay, fast asleep on a couch by the window.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	till	till	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nmod	_	_
42	Briar	Briar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
43	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	49	advmod	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	advmod	_	_
52	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	xcomp	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
56	by	by	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | man |  |  |  | till last; then | far *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | could · past | all |  |  |  | still | hear *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw** | past | man | every breath *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | man |  |  | the old tower |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tower=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **open** | past | man *not said here* | the door of the little room in the door of the little room in the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | Briar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lie** | past | Briar |  |  | a couch; there |  | by the window; fast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=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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