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title: Oh, yes, if another mounts behind quickly, and takes out the firearm… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, yes, if another mounts behind quickly, and takes out the firearms which are in the holster, and with them shoots the horse dead, then the young King will be saved. Who acts: another, firearms. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 62

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Oh, yes, if another mounts behind quickly, and takes out the firearms which are in the holster, and with them shoots the horse dead, then the young King will be saved.

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**Who acts:** another, firearms · **What happens:** mount, take out, be, shoot, save · **To what, where:** firearms, holster, horse, young King

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (another, firearms), 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:pg11027:16:62
# text = Oh, yes, if another mounts behind quickly, and takes out the firearms which are in the holster, and with them shoots the horse dead, then the young King will be saved.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mounts	mount	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	firearms	firearm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	holster	holster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
25	shoots	shoot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | present | another |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take out** | present | another *not said here* | the firearms |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firearm=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the firearms |  |  | the holster |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shoot** | present | another *not said here* | the horse |  |  |  | with firearms *= firearm*; dead *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with they=Instrument |
| 5 | **save** | future · passive |  | the young King |  |  | then |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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