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title: So the rogues went: and when they found what these yellow buttons we… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the rogues went: and when they found what these yellow buttons were, they took them all away, and left her plenty of plates and dishes. Who acts: rogues, buttons. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 37

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So the rogues went: and when they found what these yellow buttons were, they took them all away, and left her plenty of plates and dishes.

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**Who acts:** rogues, buttons · **What happens:** go, find, take, leave · **To what, where:** rogues, plenty

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogues, buttons), 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:pg2591:29:37
# text = So the rogues went: and when they found what these yellow buttons were, they took them all away, and left her plenty of plates and dishes.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the rogues |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | rogues *= rogue* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | past | buttons *= button* | rogues *= rogue* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | past | buttons *= button* *not said here* | Frederick's plenty of plates and dishes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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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