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title: Then the wind came and blew off his hat, and off it flew a great dis… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the wind came and blew off his hat, and off it flew a great distance over the hills and far away, so that he had to run after it: and when he came back, she had done up her hair again, and all was safe. Who acts: wind, Curdken, girl, all. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Th
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 61

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Then the wind came and blew off his hat, and off it flew a great distance over the hills and far away, so that he had to run after it: and when he came back, she had done up her hair again, and all was safe.

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**Who acts:** wind, Curdken, girl, all · **What happens:** come, blow off, fly, have, run, come back · **To what, where:** hat, great distance, hills, hair

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, Curdken, girl, all), 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:pg11027:6:61
# text = Then the wind came and blew off his hat, and off it flew a great distance over the hills and far away, so that he had to run after it: and when he came back, she had done up her hair again, and all was safe.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	again	again	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the wind |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **blow off** | past | the wind *not said here* | Curdken's hat |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient |
| 3 | **fly** | past | wind | a great distance |  | the hills |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme over hill=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | Curdken |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run** | to-infinitive | Curdken *not said here* |  |  |  | after wind |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come back** | past | Curdken |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **do up** | past · perfect | girl | girl's hair |  |  | again |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality |
| 8 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | safe *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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