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title: One-Eye went up to the tree, and pulled a bough toward her, to pluck… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: One-Eye went up to the tree, and pulled a bough toward her, to pluck off the fruit; but the bough flew back again directly out of her hands; and so it did every time she took hold of it, till she was forced to give up, for she could not obtain a single golden apple in spite of all her endeavors. Who
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 69

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One-Eye went up to the tree, and pulled a bough toward her, to pluck off the fruit; but the bough flew back again directly out of her hands; and so it did every time she took hold of it, till she was forced to give up, for she could not obtain a single golden apple in spite of all her endeavors.

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**Who acts:** One Eye, bough, tree, Eye · **What happens:** go up, pull, pluck off, fly back, do, take · **To what, where:** bough, fruit, hands, hold, Eye, single golden apple

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One Eye, bough, tree, Eye), 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:pg11027:25:69
# text = One-Eye went up to the tree, and pulled a bough toward her, to pluck off the fruit; but the bough flew back again directly out of her hands; and so it did every time she took hold of it, till she was forced to give up, for she could not obtain a single golden apple in spite of all her endeavors.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	parataxis	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	up	up	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
57	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
61	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
62	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
67	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	69	det:predet	_	_
68	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
69	endeavors	endeavor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | One Eye |  |  |  |  | to the tree | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **pull** | past |  | a bough |  |  |  | toward Eye | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bough=Theme |
| 3 | **pluck off** | to-infinitive |  | the fruit |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 4 | **fly back** | past | the bough |  |  | Eye's hands | again | directly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hand=Location |
| 5 | **do** | past | tree |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take** | past | Eye | hold of tree |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 7 | **force** | past · passive |  | Eye |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **give up** | to-infinitive | Eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **not** **obtain** | could | Eye | a single golden apple |  | spite of Eye's endeavors |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
| 10 | **hold** |  |  | tree |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 11 | **spite** |  |  | Eye's endeavors |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 12 | **endeavor** |  | Eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom endeavor «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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