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title: He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 55

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He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it.

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**Who acts:** son, singing · **What happens:** ride, have, touch, go out, listen · **To what, where:** heart, forest, singing

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, singing), 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:pg2591:18:55
# text = He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | son |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | the singing |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **touch** | past | the singing *not said here* | son's heart |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **go out** | past | son |  |  | the forest | day | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **listen** | past | son *not said here* |  | singing |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme |

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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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