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title: Then one of the feathers flew eastwards, another westwards, but the… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then one of the feathers flew eastwards, another westwards, but the third went straight up towards the sky, though it only sped a short distance before falling to earth. Who acts: one, third, sky. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers, with its depende
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 5

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Then one of the feathers flew eastwards, another westwards, but the third went straight up towards the sky, though it only sped a short distance before falling to earth.

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**Who acts:** one, third, sky · **What happens:** fly, go, speed, fall · **To what, where:** eastwards, sky, short distance

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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 (one, third, sky), 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:pg11027:10:5
# text = Then one of the feathers flew eastwards, another westwards, but the third went straight up towards the sky, though it only sped a short distance before falling to earth.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	eastwards	eastward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	conj	_	_
10	westwards	westwards	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | one of the feathers | eastwards |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eastward=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the third |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards sky=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **speed** | past | sky | a short distance |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location distance=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | gerund | sky *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=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:** «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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