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title: Then he went into the field, and hid himself in a bush by the meadow… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he went into the field, and hid himself in a bush by the meadow’s side; and he soon saw with his own eyes how they drove the flock of geese; and how, after a little time, she let down her hair that glittered in the sun. And then he heard her say: Who acts: king, eyes, Falada, hair. A sentence o
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 76

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Then he went into the field, and hid himself in a bush by the meadow’s side; and he soon saw with his own eyes how they drove the flock of geese; and how, after a little time, she let down her hair that glittered in the sun. And then he heard her say:

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**Who acts:** king, eyes, Falada, hair · **What happens:** go, hide, see, drive, let down, glitter · **To what, where:** field, king, bush, flock, hair, sun. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (king, eyes, Falada, hair), 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:pg2591:15:76
# text = Then he went into the field, and hid himself in a bush by the meadow’s side; and he soon saw with his own eyes how they drove the flock of geese; and how, after a little time, she let down her hair that glittered in the sun. And then he heard her say:
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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	after	after	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
46	down	down	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	57	advmod	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
58	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	:	:	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 | king |  |  | the field | then; time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hide** | past | king *not said here* | king |  | a bush |  | by the meadow's side | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in bush=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | king |  |  |  |  | with king's own eyes; soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **drive** | past | eyes *= eye* | the flock of geese |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme flock=Trajectory |
| 5 | **let down** | past | Falada | Falada's hair |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 6 | **glitter** | past | Falada's hair |  |  | the sun. |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun.=Location |
| 7 | **hear** | past | king | Falada |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Falada *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:** «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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