--- title: An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his handkerc… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his handkerchief to wipe his face, but the pin ran into him and pricked him: then he walked into the kitchen to light his pipe at the fire, but when he stirred it up the eggshells flew into his eyes, and almost blinded him. Who acts: landlord, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/17/) [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/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [1. How They Went to the Mountains to E…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/) / 17 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 17 An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his handkerchief to wipe his face, but the pin ran into him and pricked him: then he walked into the kitchen to light his pipe at the fire, but when he stirred it up the eggshells flew into his eyes, and almost blinded him. **Who acts:** landlord, pin, eggshells · **What happens:** get up, take, wipe, run, prick, walk · **To what, where:** handkerchief, face, landlord, kitchen, pipe, fire This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, pin, eggshells), 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:pg2591:16:17 # text = An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his handkerchief to wipe his face, but the pin ran into him and pricked him: then he walked into the kitchen to light his pipe at the fire, but when he stirred it up the eggshells flew into his eyes, and almost blinded him. 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 landlord landlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 wipe wipe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 pricked prick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 light light VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 44 but but CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 45 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 47 advmod _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 stirred stir VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 advcl _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 up up ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 eggshells eggshell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 53 into into ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 58 almost almost ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 59 blinded blind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 60 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | the landlord | | | | | afterwards *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **take** | past | the landlord *not said here* | landlord's handkerchief | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | | 3 | **wipe** | to-infinitive | the landlord *not said here* | landlord's face | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source | | 4 | **run** | past | the pin | | | | | into landlord | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into he=Result | | 5 | **prick** | past | the pin *not said here* | landlord | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | | 6 | **walk** | past | landlord | | | | then | into the kitchen *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Result | | 7 | **light** | to-infinitive | landlord *not said here* | landlord's pipe | | the fire | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product | | 8 | **stir up** | past | landlord | pin | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient | | 9 | **fly** | past | the eggshells | | | | | into landlord's eyes *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into eye=Result | | 10 | **blind** | past | landlord *not said here* | landlord | | | | almost *property* | tree rules | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/18/) - ↑ back to [1. 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