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title: Thumbling had climbed up among the hay and found a beautiful place t… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Thumbling had climbed up among the hay and found a beautiful place to sleep in: there he intended to rest until day, and then go home again to his parents. Who acts: Huntsman. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 141

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Thumbling had climbed up among the hay and found a beautiful place to sleep in: there he intended to rest until day, and then go home again to his parents.

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**Who acts:** Huntsman · **What happens:** thumbl, climb up, find, sleep in, intend, rest · **To what, where:** beautiful place

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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 (Huntsman), 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:pg11027:17:141
# text = Thumbling had climbed up among the hay and found a beautiful place to sleep in: there he intended to rest until day, and then go home again to his parents.
1	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	until	until	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	home	home	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thumbl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb up** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | among the hay | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past |  | a beautiful place |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 4 | **sleep in** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **intend** | past | Huntsman |  |  | there |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **rest** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Huntsman *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive | Huntsman *not said here* |  |  |  | then; again | to Huntsman's parents; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to parent=Initial\_Location |

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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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