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title: Then away rattled the nuts down among the boughs and one of the thie… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then away rattled the nuts down among the boughs and one of the thieves cried, ‘Bless me, it is hailing.’ Who acts: one, haste. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 77

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Then away rattled the nuts down among the boughs and one of the thieves cried, ‘Bless me, it is hailing.’

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**Who acts:** one, haste · **What happens:** rattle down, cry, bless, hail · **To what, where:** nuts, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one, haste), 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:pg2591:29:77
# text = Then away rattled the nuts down among the boughs and one of the thieves cried, ‘Bless me, it is hailing.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	hailing	hail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rattle down** | past |  | the nuts |  |  | then | away, down *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | one of the thieves |  |  |  |  | among the boughs | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bless** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **hail** | present · progressive | haste |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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