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title: But the sparrow sat on the outside of the window, and cried ‘Carter!… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the sparrow sat on the outside of the window, and cried ‘Carter! thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life!’ Who acts: sparrow, cruelty. 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 50

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But the sparrow sat on the outside of the window, and cried ‘Carter! thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life!’

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**Who acts:** sparrow, cruelty · **What happens:** sit, cry, cost · **To what, where:** outside, Carter, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, 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:pg2591:9:50
# text = But the sparrow sat on the outside of the window, and cried ‘Carter! thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life!’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Carter	Carter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the sparrow |  |  | the outside of the window |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on outside=Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the sparrow *not said here* | Carter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cost** | shall | thy cruelty | thee |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme thou=Beneficiary life=Value |

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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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