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title: So he put the bread on the table and stitched away, making larger an… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So he put the bread on the table and stitched away, making larger and larger stitches every time for joy. Who acts: Heaven. 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 9

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So he put the bread on the table and stitched away, making larger and larger stitches every time for joy.

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**Who acts:** Heaven · **What happens:** put, stitch away, make · **To what, where:** bread, table, larger stitches

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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 (Heaven), 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:pg11027:13:9
# text = So he put the bread on the table and stitched away, making larger and larger stitches every time for joy.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stitched	stitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	_
17	stitches	stitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Heaven | the bread |  | the table |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme on table=Destination |
| 2 | **stitch away** | participle | Heaven *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | Heaven *not said here* | larger stitches |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stitch=Product |

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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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