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title: Soon after he set out boldly on his travels; and, as he was light an… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after he set out boldly on his travels; and, as he was light and active, he felt no fatigue. Who acts: world. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 20

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Soon after he set out boldly on his travels; and, as he was light and active, he felt no fatigue.

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**Who acts:** world · **What happens:** set out, travel, be, feel · **To what, where:** fatigue

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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:pg11027:13:20
# text = Soon after he set out boldly on his travels; and, as he was light and active, he felt no fatigue.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | world |  |  |  |  | boldly, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | present | world *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | world |  |  |  |  | light *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | world *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | past | world | no fatigue |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fatigue=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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