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title: There the thieves at length found him, and lifted him up. " — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: There the thieves at length found him, and lifted him up. " Who acts: thieves. 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 126

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There the thieves at length found him, and lifted him up. "

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**Who acts:** thieves · **What happens:** find, lift up · **To what, where:** voice

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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 (thieves), 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:pg11027:17:126
# text = There the thieves at length found him, and lifted him up. "
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the thieves at length | voice |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **lift up** | past | the thieves at length *not said here* | voice |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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