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title: But Tom ran about amongst the furrows, and at last slipped into an o… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Tom ran about amongst the furrows, and at last slipped into an old mouse-hole. Who acts: Tom. 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 34

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But Tom ran about amongst the furrows, and at last slipped into an old mouse-hole.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** run about, slip · **To what, where:** furrows, last

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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 (Tom), 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:pg2591:25:34
# text = But Tom ran about amongst the furrows, and at last slipped into an old mouse-hole.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	furrows	furrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
12	slipped	slip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run about** | past | Tom |  |  | the furrows |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst furrow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **slip** | participle |  |  |  | last |  | into a old mouse hole | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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