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title: The rogues went at once, and soon dug up the shining gold which they… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The rogues went at once, and soon dug up the shining gold which they quickly pocketed, and then they ran off, leaving behind them their pots and dishes in the house. Who acts: rogues, counters. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tree an
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 29

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The rogues went at once, and soon dug up the shining gold which they quickly pocketed, and then they ran off, leaving behind them their pots and dishes in the house.

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**Who acts:** rogues, counters · **What happens:** go, dig up, shine, pocket, run off, leave · **To what, where:** shining gold, pots, house

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogues, counters), 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:pg11027:12:29
# text = The rogues went at once, and soon dug up the shining gold which they quickly pocketed, and then they ran off, leaving behind them their pots and dishes in the house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	pocketed	pocket	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the rogues |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **dig up** | participle | the rogues *not said here* | the shining gold |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pocket** | past | counters *= counter* | the shining gold |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 5 | **run off** | past | counters *= counter* |  |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leave** | gerund | counters *= counter* *not said here* | counters's pots and dishes |  | the house |  | behind counters *= counter* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pot=Theme behind they=Location |

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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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