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title: Then he took the youngest by the hand to lead her away; but the mome… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took the youngest by the hand to lead her away; but the moment he touched her he, too, hung fast, and followed in the procession. Who acts: leg, moment. 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 36

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Then he took the youngest by the hand to lead her away; but the moment he touched her he, too, hung fast, and followed in the procession.

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**Who acts:** leg, moment · **What happens:** take, lead away, touch, hang, follow · **To what, where:** youngest, sister, procession

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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 (leg, moment), 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:pg11027:15:36
# text = Then he took the youngest by the hand to lead her away; but the moment he touched her he, too, hung fast, and followed in the procession.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	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	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
25	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | leg | the youngest |  |  | then | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Theme |
| 2 | **lead away** | to-infinitive | leg *not said here* | sister |  |  |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **touch** | past | the moment | sister |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **hang** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  | the procession |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in procession=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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