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title: Then he set up another, and whir, whir, whir, thrice round again, an… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he set up another, and whir, whir, whir, thrice round again, and a second bobbin was full; and so he went all night long, until all the straw was spun, and the bobbins were full of gold. Who acts: necklace, second bobbin, bobbins. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 98

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Then he set up another, and whir, whir, whir, thrice round again, and a second bobbin was full; and so he went all night long, until all the straw was spun, and the bobbins were full of gold.

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**Who acts:** necklace, second bobbin, bobbins · **What happens:** set up, be, go, spin · **To what, where:** another, straw

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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 (necklace, second bobbin, bobbins), 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:pg11027:24:98
# text = Then he set up another, and whir, whir, whir, thrice round again, and a second bobbin was full; and so he went all night long, until all the straw was spun, and the bobbins were full of gold.
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	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	whir	whir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	whir	whir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	whir	whir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	bobbin	bobbin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	bobbins	bobbin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | past | necklace | another |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient another=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | a second bobbin |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | necklace |  |  |  | night | long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spin** | past · passive |  | all straw |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the bobbins |  |  |  |  | of gold; full *property* | tree rules |

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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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