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title: Then he hung the bearskin around himself, and went about the world c… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he hung the bearskin around himself, and went about the world chuckling at his good luck, and buying whatever suited his fancy which money could purchase. Who acts: soldier, fancy. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 73

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Then he hung the bearskin around himself, and went about the world chuckling at his good luck, and buying whatever suited his fancy which money could purchase.

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**Who acts:** soldier, fancy · **What happens:** hang, go, chuckle, buy, suit, purchase · **To what, where:** bearskin, good luck, fancy

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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, fancy), 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:pg11027:15:73
# text = Then he hung the bearskin around himself, and went about the world chuckling at his good luck, and buying whatever suited his fancy which money could purchase.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bearskin	bearskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	chuckling	chuckle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	nsubj	_	_
22	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	suited	suit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | soldier | the bearskin |  |  | then | around soldier | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bearskin=Theme around himself=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the world | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **chuckle** | gerund | soldier *not said here* |  |  | soldier's good luck |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **buy** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **suit** | past |  | soldier's fancy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **purchase** | could | soldier's fancy |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **fancy** |  | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition 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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