--- title: This she tied to him, and taking the other end in her hand, she led… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: This she tied to him, and taking the other end in her hand, she led him away, and they travelled deeper and deeper into the forest. Who acts: This, Sister, rushes. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/) / 19 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 19 This she tied to him, and taking the other end in her hand, she led him away, and they travelled deeper and deeper into the forest. **Who acts:** This, Sister, rushes · **What happens:** tie, take, lead away, travel · **To what, where:** brother, other end, hand, forest This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Sister, rushes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:7:19 # text = This she tied to him, and taking the other end in her hand, she led him away, and they travelled deeper and deeper into the forest. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 xcomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 conj _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tie** | past | This | | brother | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to he=Co-Patient | | 2 | **take** | gerund | This *not said here* | the other end | | Sister's hand | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent end=Value in hand=Location | | 3 | **lead away** | past | Sister | brother | | | | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **travel** | past | rushes *= rush* | | | the forest | | deep *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/20/) - ↑ back to [The Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/)