--- title: Then, again, he blew three feathers into the air to show the directi… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then, again, he blew three feathers into the air to show the direction each one should go; whereupon the two elder sons went east and west, but Dummling's flew straight up, and fell close by the trap-door. Who acts: Dummling, one, two elder sons. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, one, two elder sons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:10:28 # text = Then, again, he blew three feathers into the air to show the direction each one should go; whereupon the two elder sons went east and west, but Dummling's flew straight up, and fell close by the trap-door. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 again again ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 elder elder ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 27 east east ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 west west ADV RB _ 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 Dummling Dummling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 flew flew NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 straight straight ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 up up ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 40 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow** | past | Dummling | three feathers | | the air | then; again | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent feather=Material into air=Product | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | Dummling *not said here* | the direction | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient | | 3 | **go** | should | each one | the direction *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | the two elder sons | | | | | east, whereupon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | the two elder sons *not said here* | | | | | by the trap door; close *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by door=Location | 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. **Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/10/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/10/29/) - ↑ back to [Dummling and the Three Feathers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/10/)