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title: The carter was mad with fury; and without looking about him, or cari… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The carter was mad with fury; and without looking about him, or caring what he was about, struck again at the sparrow; but killed his third horse as he done the other two. Who acts: carter, harm. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow, with its dependency tree an
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 40

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The carter was mad with fury; and without looking about him, or caring what he was about, struck again at the sparrow; but killed his third horse as he done the other two.

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**Who acts:** carter, harm · **What happens:** be, look, care, strike, kill, do · **To what, where:** harm, sparrow, third horse, other two

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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 (carter, harm), 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:pg2591:9:40
# text = The carter was mad with fury; and without looking about him, or caring what he was about, struck again at the sparrow; but killed his third horse as he done the other two.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carter	carter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	caring	care	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the carter |  |  |  |  | with fury; mad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about harm | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
| 3 | **care** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **strike** | past · passive |  | harm |  | the sparrow | again | about *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **kill** | past |  | harm's third horse |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | past | harm | the other two |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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