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title: After considering awhile, Tom Thumb consented, and accompanied them… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: After considering awhile, Tom Thumb consented, and accompanied them to the king's treasury. Who acts: Tom. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 21

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After considering awhile, Tom Thumb consented, and accompanied them to the king's treasury.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** consider, consent, accompany · **To what, where:** coins, treasury

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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 (Tom), 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:pg11027:22:21
# text = After considering awhile, Tom Thumb consented, and accompanied them to the king's treasury.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | gerund | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awhile *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **consent** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accompany** | past | Tom *not said here* | coins *= coin* |  | the king's treasury |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to treasury=Destination |

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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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