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title: So the little fellow continued his travels, and presently entering a… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So the little fellow continued his travels, and presently entering a thick forest, he encountered a company of robbers who were plotting to steal the king's treasure. Who acts: little fellow, fellow, robbers, king. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb, with 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 16

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So the little fellow continued his travels, and presently entering a thick forest, he encountered a company of robbers who were plotting to steal the king's treasure.

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**Who acts:** little fellow, fellow, robbers, king · **What happens:** continue, travel, enter, encounter, plot, steal · **To what, where:** thick forest, company, treasure

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little fellow, fellow, robbers, king), 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:pg11027:22:16
# text = So the little fellow continued his travels, and presently entering a thick forest, he encountered a company of robbers who were plotting to steal the king's treasure.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	plotting	plot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the little fellow |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **travel** | present | the little fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **enter** | gerund | the little fellow *not said here* | a thick forest |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination |
| 4 | **encounter** | past | fellow | a company of robbers |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus |
| 5 | **plot** | past · progressive | robbers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **steal** | to-infinitive | robbers *not said here* | the king's treasure |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme |
| 7 | **treasure** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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