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title: Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine. Who acts: dog. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 19

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Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** sleep, come, draw, load · **To what, where:** cart

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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:pg2591:9:19
# text = Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine.
1	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	carter	carter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  | there |  | by a carter with a cart | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by carter=Location |
| 3 | **draw** | participle |  | a cart *not said here* |  |  |  | by three horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **load** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with two casks of wine | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cask=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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