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title: By and by he came to a great heath with nothing on it but a circle o… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: By and by he came to a great heath with nothing on it but a circle of trees, under which he sat down, sorrowfully considering his fate. " Who acts: soldier. 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 53

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By and by he came to a great heath with nothing on it but a circle of trees, under which he sat down, sorrowfully considering his fate. "

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** come, sit down, consider, fate · **To what, where:** great heath, fate

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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 (soldier), 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:pg11027:15:53
# text = By and by he came to a great heath with nothing on it but a circle of trees, under which he sat down, sorrowfully considering his fate. "
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | soldier |  |  | a great heath with nothing but a circle of trees |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heath=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location |
| 3 | **consider** | gerund | soldier *not said here* | soldier's fate |  |  |  | sorrowfully *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent fate=Attribute |
| 4 | **fate** |  | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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