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title: When the moon came they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the m… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the moon came they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up. Who acts: moon, Hansel, birds. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 62

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When the moon came they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up.

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**Who acts:** moon, Hansel, birds · **What happens:** come, set out, find, fly, pick up · **To what, where:** crumbs, woods, many thousands

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, Hansel, birds), 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:pg2591:20:62
# text = When the moon came they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	up	up	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | past | Hansel |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | Hansel | no crumbs |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Topic |
| 4 | **fly** | present | birds |  |  | the woods and fields |  | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 5 | **pick up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the many thousands of birds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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