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title: The sparrow, seeing that the carter did not turn out of the way, but… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sparrow, seeing that the carter did not turn out of the way, but would go on in the track in which the dog lay, so as to drive over him, called out, ‘Stop! stop! Who acts: sparrow, carter, dog. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow, with its dependency tree 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 20

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The sparrow, seeing that the carter did not turn out of the way, but would go on in the track in which the dog lay, so as to drive over him, called out, ‘Stop! stop!

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**Who acts:** sparrow, carter, dog · **What happens:** see, not turn out, go on, lie, drive, call out · **To what, where:** way, track, stop

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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 (sparrow, carter, 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:pg2591:9:20
# text = The sparrow, seeing that the carter did not turn out of the way, but would go on in the track in which the dog lay, so as to drive over him, called out, ‘Stop! stop!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	carter	carter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
42	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | the sparrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **turn out** | past · do-support | the carter | the way |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 3 | **go on** | would | the sparrow |  |  | the track |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in track=Location |
| 4 | **lie** | past | the dog |  |  | the track |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
| 5 | **drive** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | over dog | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Trajectory |
| 6 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **stop** | infinitive | the sparrow *not said here* | stop |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stop=Eventuality |

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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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