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title: Then he took hold of his left leg with both his hands, and pulled aw… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 127

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Then he took hold of his left leg with both his hands, and pulled away so hard that his right came off in the struggle, and he hopped away howling terribly.

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**Who acts:** man, right · **What happens:** take, pull away, come off, hop away, howl, hold · **To what, where:** hold, struggle, left leg

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, right), 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:pg11027:24:127
# text = Then he took hold of his left leg with both his hands, and pulled away so hard that his right came off in the struggle, and he hopped away howling terribly.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	both	both	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
23	off	off	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | man | hold of man's left leg |  |  | then | with man's hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 2 | **pull away** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, hard *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come off** | past | man's right |  |  | the struggle |  | off *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in struggle=Location |
| 4 | **hop away** | past | man |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **howl** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | terribly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hold** |  |  | man's left leg |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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