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title: As the five were thus trudging along, one after another, they met tw… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: As the five were thus trudging along, one after another, they met two laborers with their mattocks coming from work; and the parson called out to them to set him free. Who acts: five, brothers, mattocks. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 40

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As the five were thus trudging along, one after another, they met two laborers with their mattocks coming from work; and the parson called out to them to set him free.

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**Who acts:** five, brothers, mattocks · **What happens:** trudge, meet, come, call out, set · **To what, where:** one, two laborers, work, parson, brothers

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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 (five, brothers, mattocks), 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:pg11027:15:40
# text = As the five were thus trudging along, one after another, they met two laborers with their mattocks coming from work; and the parson called out to them to set him free.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	trudging	trudge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	_
7	along	along	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	laborers	laborer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mattocks	mattock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	parson	parson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trudge** | past · progressive | the five | one |  |  | after another | along, thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |
| 2 | **meet** | past | brothers *= brother* | two laborers |  |  |  | with brothers's mattocks | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent laborer=Theme with mattock=Instrument |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | brothers's mattocks *not said here* |  |  | work |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from work=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | the parson | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to they=Recipient |
| 5 | **set** | to-infinitive |  | parson |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |

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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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