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title: Thereupon the Evil One pulled off the gray coat, handed it to the so… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon the Evil One pulled off the gray coat, handed it to the soldier, and said, "If you at any time search in the pockets of your coat when you have it on, you will always find your hand full of money." Who acts: Evil One, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Go
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 69

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Thereupon the Evil One pulled off the gray coat, handed it to the soldier, and said, "If you at any time search in the pockets of your coat when you have it on, you will always find your hand full of money."

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**Who acts:** Evil One, you · **What happens:** pull off, hand, say, have on, find · **To what, where:** gray coat, coat, soldier, time search, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Evil One, 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:pg11027:15:69
# text = Thereupon the Evil One pulled off the gray coat, handed it to the soldier, and said, "If you at any time search in the pockets of your coat when you have it on, you will always find your hand full of money."
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	ccomp	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	42	advmod	_	_
42	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
43	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull off** | participle | the Evil One *not said here* | the gray coat |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hand** | past |  | coat |  | the soldier |  | thereupon *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to soldier=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  | any time search in the pockets of your coat |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have on** *in a quote* | present | you | coat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **find** *in a quote* | future | you | your hand |  |  |  | always, full *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Topic |

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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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