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title: Then he became mad and blind with rage, and struck the window-seat w… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he became mad and blind with rage, and struck the window-seat with such force that he cleft it in two: and as the sparrow flew from place to place, the carter and his wife were so furious, that they broke all their furniture, glasses, chairs, benches, the table, and at last the walls, without t
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 53

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Then he became mad and blind with rage, and struck the window-seat with such force that he cleft it in two: and as the sparrow flew from place to place, the carter and his wife were so furious, that they broke all their furniture, glasses, chairs, benches, the table, and at last the walls, without touching the bird at all.

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**Who acts:** cruelty, sparrow, wife, rage · **What happens:** become, strike, cleft, fly, be, break · **To what, where:** window seat, seat, two, place, furniture, bird

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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 (cruelty, sparrow, wife, rage), 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:pg2591:9:53
# text = Then he became mad and blind with rage, and struck the window-seat with such force that he cleft it in two: and as the sparrow flew from place to place, the carter and his wife were so furious, that they broke all their furniture, glasses, chairs, benches, the table, and at last the walls, without touching the bird at all.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cleft	cleft	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	carter	carter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	benches	bench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
62	at	at	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
68	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	63	advcl	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obj	_	_
71	at	at	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
72	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	70	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | cruelty |  |  |  | then | mad *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **strike** | past | cruelty *not said here* | the window seat |  |  |  | with such force | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent seat=Patient with force=Instrument |
| 3 | **cleft** | infinitive | cruelty | seat |  | two |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | past | the sparrow |  |  | place |  | to place and the carter | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from place=Initial\_Location to place=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | cruelty's wife |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **break** | past | rage | rage's furniture and the table |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer furniture=Patient |
| 7 | **touch** | gerund | cruelty *not said here* | the bird |  | all |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Co-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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