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title: By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine strea… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 107

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By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill.

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**What happens:** run, stand · **To what, where:** fine stream, mill, stream

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2591:25:107
# text = By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	off	off	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past |  | a fine stream of water |  |  |  | by the side of a wood and a country | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stream=Theme by side=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a mill |  | the stream; there |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mill=Theme upon stream=Destination |

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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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