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title: Round went the wheel again to the old song, and the manikin once mor… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Round went the wheel again to the old song, and the manikin once more spun the heap into gold. Who acts: manikin. 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 133

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Round went the wheel again to the old song, and the manikin once more spun the heap into gold.

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**Who acts:** manikin · **What happens:** go, spin · **To what, where:** wheel, heap, 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: who acts (manikin), 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:pg2591:25:133
# text = Round went the wheel again to the old song, and the manikin once more spun the heap into gold.
1	Round	round	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	manikin	manikin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  | the wheel |  |  | again | to the old song; round *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheel=Theme |
| 2 | **spin** | past | the manikin | the heap |  | gold |  | once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent heap=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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