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title: From the young toads around the old toad, the young man seized one a… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: From the young toads around the old toad, the young man seized one at hazard, and placed it in the scooped-out turnip, but hardly was it there when the most astounding change occurred, for the toad was transformed into a wondrously lovely maiden, the turnip became an elegant carriage, and the six mi
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 41

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From the young toads around the old toad, the young man seized one at hazard, and placed it in the scooped-out turnip, but hardly was it there when the most astounding change occurred, for the toad was transformed into a wondrously lovely maiden, the turnip became an elegant carriage, and the six mice were turned into handsome horses.

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**Who acts:** young man, hazard, astounding change, turnip · **What happens:** seize, place, scoop, be, occur, transform · **To what, where:** one, hazard, scooped out turnip, toad, elegant carriage, six mice

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, hazard, astounding change, turnip), 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:pg11027:10:41
# text = From the young toads around the old toad, the young man seized one at hazard, and placed it in the scooped-out turnip, but hardly was it there when the most astounding change occurred, for the toad was transformed into a wondrously lovely maiden, the turnip became an elegant carriage, and the six mice were turned into handsome horses.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hazard	hazard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	scooped	scoop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	turnip	turnip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
29	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	astounding	astounding	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	parataxis	_	_
45	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	wondrously	wondrously	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	turnip	turnip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
54	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	61	nummod	_	_
61	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nsubj	_	_
62	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux:pass	_	_
63	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
64	into	into	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | the young man | one |  | hazard |  | from the old toad | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from toad=Source |
| 2 | **place** | past | the young man *not said here* | hazard |  | the scooped out turnip |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in turnip=Destination |
| 3 | **scoop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | hazard |  |  |  |  | hardly, there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **occur** | past | the astounding change |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **transform** | past · passive |  | the toad |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **become** | past | the turnip | a elegant carriage |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **turn** | past · passive |  | the six mice |  |  |  | into handsome horses *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into horse=Result |

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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:** «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.

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