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title: Then they ran at once to the place, and poked the ends of their stic… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they ran at once to the place, and poked the ends of their sticks into the mouse-hole, but all in vain; Tom only crawled farther and farther in; and at last it became quite dark, so that they were forced to go their way without their prize, as sulky as could be. Who acts: masters, Tom, hole. A 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 36

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Then they ran at once to the place, and poked the ends of their sticks into the mouse-hole, but all in vain; Tom only crawled farther and farther in; and at last it became quite dark, so that they were forced to go their way without their prize, as sulky as could be.

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**Who acts:** masters, Tom, hole · **What happens:** run, poke, crawl, become, force, go · **To what, where:** ends, last, masters, way

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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 (masters, Tom, hole), 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:pg2591:25:36
# text = Then they ran at once to the place, and poked the ends of their sticks into the mouse-hole, but all in vain; Tom only crawled farther and farther in; and at last it became quite dark, so that they were forced to go their way without their prize, as sulky as could be.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	poked	poke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	obl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	without	without	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	as	as	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	parataxis	_	_
59	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
60	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | masters *= master* |  |  |  | then | to the place *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result |
| 2 | **poke** | past | masters *= master* *not said here* | the ends of masters's sticks |  |  |  | into the mouse hole | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent end=Instrument into hole=Patient |
| 3 | **crawl** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | hole |  |  | last |  | dark *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **force** | past · passive |  | masters *= master* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | masters *= master* *not said here* | masters's way |  |  |  | without masters's prize | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |

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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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