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title: When he had rested himself he set off again, driving his cow towards… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had rested himself he set off again, driving his cow towards his mother’s village. Who acts: Hans. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 35

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When he had rested himself he set off again, driving his cow towards his mother’s village.

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**Who acts:** Hans · **What happens:** rest, set off, drive · **To what, where:** Hans, cow, village

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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 (Hans), 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:pg2591:3:35
# text = When he had rested himself he set off again, driving his cow towards his mother’s village.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **rest** | past · perfect | Hans | Hans |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
| 2 | **set off** | past | Hans |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | gerund | Hans *not said here* | Hans's cow |  | Hans's mother's village |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cow=Theme towards village=Trajectory |

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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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