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title: Then the son sat down on the fox’s tail, and away they went over sto… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the son sat down on the fox’s tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind. Who acts: son, apples. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 34

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Then the son sat down on the fox’s tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.

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**Who acts:** son, apples · **What happens:** sit down, go, whistle · **To what, where:** tail, stock, hair

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, apples), 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:pg2591:2:34
# text = Then the son sat down on the fox’s tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | the son |  |  | the fox's tail | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tail=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | apples *= apple* |  |  | stock and stone | till apples's hair | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over stock=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **whistle** | participle |  | apples's hair *not said here* |  |  |  | in the wind | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=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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