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title: The carter seeing that he had thus lost all that he had, went down i… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The carter seeing that he had thus lost all that he had, went down into his kitchen; and was still not sorry for what he had done, but sat himself angrily and sulkily in the chimney corner. Who acts: carter, cruelty. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow, with i
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 49

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The carter seeing that he had thus lost all that he had, went down into his kitchen; and was still not sorry for what he had done, but sat himself angrily and sulkily in the chimney corner.

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**Who acts:** carter, cruelty · **What happens:** see, lose, have, go down, not be, do · **To what, where:** all, kitchen, cruelty, chimney corner

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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, cruelty), 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:pg2591:9:49
# text = The carter seeing that he had thus lost all that he had, went down into his kitchen; and was still not sorry for what he had done, but sat himself angrily and sulkily in the chimney corner.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carter	carter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
3	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	_
34	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	sulkily	sulkily	ADV	RB	_	34	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | the carter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect | cruelty | all |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | cruelty |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go down** | past | cruelty *not said here* |  |  | cruelty's kitchen |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | the carter |  |  |  | still | sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | past · perfect | cruelty |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sit** | past |  | cruelty |  | the chimney corner |  | angrily *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in corner=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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