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title: And round about the wheel went merrily; the work was quickly done, a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And round about the wheel went merrily; the work was quickly done, and the straw was all spun into gold. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 120

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And round about the wheel went merrily; the work was quickly done, and the straw was all spun into gold.

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**What happens:** go, do, spin · **To what, where:** work, straw, gold

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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:pg2591:25:120
# text = And round about the wheel went merrily; the work was quickly done, and the straw was all spun into gold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about the wheel; merrily, round *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about wheel=Location |
| 2 | **do** | past · passive |  | the work |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **spin** | past · passive |  | the straw |  | gold |  | all *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into gold=Trajectory |

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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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