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title: The hare came to eat parsley from their hands, the deer grazed by th… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The hare came to eat parsley from their hands, the deer grazed by their side, the stag bounded past them unheeding; the birds, likewise, did not stir from the bough, but sang in entire security. Who acts: hare, stag. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 9

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The hare came to eat parsley from their hands, the deer grazed by their side, the stag bounded past them unheeding; the birds, likewise, did not stir from the bough, but sang in entire security.

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**Who acts:** hare, stag · **What happens:** come, eat, graze, bound, not stir, sing · **To what, where:** birds, parsley, hands, deer, unheeding, bough

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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 (hare, stag), 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:pg11027:23:9
# text = The hare came to eat parsley from their hands, the deer grazed by their side, the stag bounded past them unheeding; the birds, likewise, did not stir from the bough, but sang in entire security.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	parsley	parsley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	grazed	graze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	past	past	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	unheeding	unheeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the hare | the birds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the hare *not said here* | parsley |  | children's hands and the deer |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parsley=Patient |
| 3 | **graze** | participle |  | the deer *not said here* |  |  |  | by children's side | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bound** | past | the stag | unheeding |  |  |  | past children *= child* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location unheeding=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **stir** | past · do-support | the hare *not said here* |  |  | the bough |  | likewise *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the hare *not said here* |  |  | entire security |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in security=Location |

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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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