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title: When the time came, the mother harnessed the horse, and placed Thumb… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When the time came, the mother harnessed the horse, and placed Thumbling in its ear, and then the little creature cried, "Gee up, gee up!" Who acts: time, mother, little creature. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 88

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When the time came, the mother harnessed the horse, and placed Thumbling in its ear, and then the little creature cried, "Gee up, gee up!"

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**Who acts:** time, mother, little creature · **What happens:** come, harness, place, thumbl, cry, gee up · **To what, where:** horse, ear · **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 (time, mother, little creature), 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:pg11027:17:88
# text = When the time came, the mother harnessed the horse, and placed Thumbling in its ear, and then the little creature cried, "Gee up, gee up!"
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Gee	gee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	gee	gee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **harness** | past | the mother |  | the horse |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination |
| 3 | **place** | past | the mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **thumbl** | gerund | the mother *not said here* |  |  | horse's ear |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the little creature |  |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **gee up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **gee up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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