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title: "Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly! — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly! Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 141

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"Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** fly · **To what, where:** sky

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg11027:15:141
# text = "Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	linnets	linnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
16	fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the sky and turtle doves and linnets |  | thither *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through sky=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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