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title: Then lift her quickly on to the horse behind you; clap your spurs to… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then lift her quickly on to the horse behind you; clap your spurs to his side, and gallop away as fast as you can.’ Who acts: you, your. 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 56

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Then lift her quickly on to the horse behind you; clap your spurs to his side, and gallop away as fast as you can.’

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** lift, clap, gallop away, spur · **To what, where:** princess, horse, spurs, side

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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 (you, your), 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:pg2591:2:56
# text = Then lift her quickly on to the horse behind you; clap your spurs to his side, and gallop away as fast as you can.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	lift	lift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	clap	clap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	gallop	gallop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | imperative | you *not said here* | princess | the horse behind you |  | then |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to horse=Destination |
| 2 | **clap** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your spurs | horse's side |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spur=Theme to side=Recipient |
| 3 | **gallop away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spur** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=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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