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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 110

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For a while he watched it sinking in the deep clear water; then sprang up and danced for joy, and again fell upon his knees and thanked Heaven, with tears in his eyes, for its kindness in taking away his only plague, the ugly heavy stone.

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**Who acts:** Meantime, side, kindness · **What happens:** watch, sink, sprang up, dance, fall, thank · **To what, where:** side, deep clear water, knees, Heaven, only plague

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime, side, kindness), 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:pg2591:3:110
# text = For a while he watched it sinking in the deep clear water; then sprang up and danced for joy, and again fell upon his knees and thanked Heaven, with tears in his eyes, for its kindness in taking away his only plague, the ugly heavy stone.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	sprang	sprang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
41	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	acl	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
49	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Meantime | side |  |  | while |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sink** | gerund | side *not said here* |  |  | the deep clear water |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sprang up** | infinitive | Meantime *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dance** | past | Meantime *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for joy | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past | Meantime *not said here* |  |  | Meantime's knees | again |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon knee=Location |
| 6 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Meantime *not said here* |  | Heaven |  |  | with tears in Meantime's eyes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme |
| 7 | **take away** | gerund | side's kindness *not said here* | Meantime's only plague and the ugly heavy stone |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plague=Theme |
| 8 | **plague** |  | Meantime |  |  |  |  |  | nom plague «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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