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title: They walked until it was dusk, and then the little fellow said, "Do… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: They walked until it was dusk, and then the little fellow said, "Do take me down; I want to come down." Who acts: children, leave, little fellow. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 110

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They walked until it was dusk, and then the little fellow said, "Do take me down; I want to come down."

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**Who acts:** children, leave, little fellow · **What happens:** walk, be, say, take down, want, come down · **To what, where:** little fellow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, leave, little fellow), 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:pg11027:17:110
# text = They walked until it was dusk, and then the little fellow said, "Do take me down; I want to come down."
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | leave |  |  |  | until dusk |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little fellow |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take down** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | the little fellow *= fellow* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the little fellow *= fellow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **come down** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the little fellow *= fellow* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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