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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 105

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The other paid him back in the same coin, and they got into such a rage that they tore up trees and belaboured each other so long, that at last they both fell down dead on the ground at the same time.

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**Who acts:** other, branches · **What happens:** pay back, get, tore up, belabour, fall down · **To what, where:** tailor, same coin, that, rage, trees, other

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, branches), 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:pg2591:19:105
# text = The other paid him back in the same coin, and they got into such a rage that they tore up trees and belaboured each other so long, that at last they both fell down dead on the ground at the same time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	belaboured	belabour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	both	both	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	down	down	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay back** | past | the other | tailor |  | the same coin |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 2 | **get** | past | branches *= branch* | that |  | such rage |  | at last | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into rage=Destination |
| 3 | **tore up** | past | branches *= branch* | trees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **belabour** | participle | branches *= branch* *not said here* | each other |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall down** | past | branches *= branch* |  |  | the ground | time | both, dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |

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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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