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title: The way to the town ran over a common, on which in every direction l… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The way to the town ran over a common, on which in every direction large masses of rocks were scattered about. Who acts: way. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 85

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The way to the town ran over a common, on which in every direction large masses of rocks were scattered about.

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**Who acts:** way · **What happens:** run, scatter · **To what, where:** common, large masses, direction

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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 (way), 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:pg11027:23:85
# text = The way to the town ran over a common, on which in every direction large masses of rocks were scattered about.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the way to the town |  |  | a common |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over common=Trajectory |
| 2 | **scatter** | past · passive |  | large masses of rocks |  | every direction |  | about *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=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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