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title: Then, one day, a maid mowing in the garden saw Tom Thumb running in… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, one day, a maid mowing in the garden saw Tom Thumb running in and out between the blades of grass, so she cut the grass, in great haste, just where he chanced to be, tied it all in a bundle, and, without anyone knowing, threw it to the cows. Who acts: maid, one day, Tom Thumb, Mistress. A sent
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 44

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Then, one day, a maid mowing in the garden saw Tom Thumb running in and out between the blades of grass, so she cut the grass, in great haste, just where he chanced to be, tied it all in a bundle, and, without anyone knowing, threw it to the cows.

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**Who acts:** maid, one day, Tom Thumb, Mistress, thumb, anyone · **What happens:** mow, see, run, cut, chance, be · **To what, where:** garden, Tom Thumb, blades, grass, great haste, bundle

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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 (maid, one day, Tom Thumb, Mistress), 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:pg11027:22:44
# text = Then, one day, a maid mowing in the garden saw Tom Thumb running in and out between the blades of grass, so she cut the grass, in great haste, just where he chanced to be, tied it all in a bundle, and, without anyone knowing, threw it to the cows.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	mowing	mow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	just	just	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	all	all	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
51	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	53	nsubj	_	_
53	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
55	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mow** | gerund | a maid *not said here* |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | one day | Tom Thumb |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | Tom Thumb *not said here* |  |  | the blades of grass |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between blade=Trajectory |
| 4 | **cut** | past | Mistress | the grass |  | great haste |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Product |
| 5 | **chance** | past | thumb |  |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | to-infinitive | thumb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **tie** | past | one day *not said here* | grass |  | a bundle |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 8 | **know** | gerund | anyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **throw** | past |  | grass | the cows |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cow=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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