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title: The Soldier now put on the coat, and dipped his hands into the pocke… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Soldier now put on the coat, and dipped his hands into the pockets, to assure himself of the reality of the transaction. 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 72

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The Soldier now put on the coat, and dipped his hands into the pockets, to assure himself of the reality of the transaction.

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**What happens:** put, dip, assure · **To what, where:** Soldier, coat, hands, pockets

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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: 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:pg11027:15:72
# text = The Soldier now put on the coat, and dipped his hands into the pockets, to assure himself of the reality of the transaction.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dipped	dip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	assure	assure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	transaction	transaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | participle · passive |  | the Soldier |  | the coat | now |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on coat=Destination |
| 2 | **dip** | past |  | soldier's hands |  | the pockets |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme into pocket=Destination |
| 3 | **assure** | to-infinitive |  | soldier |  |  |  | of the reality of the transaction | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient of reality=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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