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title: But hardly had they touched him, when they, too, joined the ranks, a… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But hardly had they touched him, when they, too, joined the ranks, and so made seven, all running after Dummerly and his goose. Who acts: brothers, all. 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 41

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But hardly had they touched him, when they, too, joined the ranks, and so made seven, all running after Dummerly and his goose.

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**Who acts:** brothers, all · **What happens:** have, touch, join, make, run · **To what, where:** parson, ranks, seven

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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 (brothers, all), 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:pg11027:15:41
# text = But hardly had they touched him, when they, too, joined the ranks, and so made seven, all running after Dummerly and his goose.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ranks	rank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
23	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Dummerly	Dummerly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **touch** | past | brothers *= brother* | parson |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **join** | past | brothers *= brother* | the ranks |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | seven |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seven=Product |
| 5 | **run** | gerund | all |  |  |  | after Dummerly and parson's goose |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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