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title: HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS 2. — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS 2. Who acts: DOG. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Preparer’s Note, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Preparer’s Note, sentence 4

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HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS 2.

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**Who acts:** DOG · **What happens:** go, eat · **To what, where:** MOUNTAINS, NUTS

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Preparer’s Note. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DOG), 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:pg2591:1:4
# text = HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS 2.
1	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	THEY	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	WENT	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	MOUNTAINS	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	TO	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	EAT	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	NUTS	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | DOG |  |  | the MOUNTAINS |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | DOG *not said here* | NUTS |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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