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title: Then he ran after him with the knife still in his hand, crying: ‘Jus… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he ran after him with the knife still in his hand, crying: ‘Just one, just one,’ meaning that the guest should leave him just one chicken, and not take both. Who acts: master, guest. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 40

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Then he ran after him with the knife still in his hand, crying: ‘Just one, just one,’ meaning that the guest should leave him just one chicken, and not take both.

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**Who acts:** master, guest · **What happens:** run, cry, mean, leave, not take · **To what, where:** one, hand, master, both · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, guest), 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:pg2591:26:40
# text = Then he ran after him with the knife still in his hand, crying: ‘Just one, just one,’ meaning that the guest should leave him just one chicken, and not take both.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
24	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
38	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	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 | master | one |  | master's hand | after two; then | with the knife | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **leave** | should | the guest | master |  |  |  | one chicken *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **take** | infinitive |  | both |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=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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