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title: They constantly ran together in the woods, collecting ripe berries;… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: They constantly ran together in the woods, collecting ripe berries; but not a single animal would have injured them; quite the reverse, they all felt the greatest esteem for the young creatures. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with i
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 8

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They constantly ran together in the woods, collecting ripe berries; but not a single animal would have injured them; quite the reverse, they all felt the greatest esteem for the young creatures.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** run, collect, not injure, feel · **To what, where:** woods, ripe berries, single animal, greatest esteem

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg11027:23:8
# text = They constantly ran together in the woods, collecting ripe berries; but not a single animal would have injured them; quite the reverse, they all felt the greatest esteem for the young creatures.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
23	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	reverse	reverse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
29	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	esteem	esteem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | children *= child* |  |  | the woods |  | constantly, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **collect** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | ripe berries |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **injure** | would · perfect · passive |  | a single animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | past | children *= child* | the greatest esteem |  |  |  | for the young creatures | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent esteem=Location for creature=Theme |

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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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