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title: Luckily a butcher soon came by, driving a pig in a wheelbarrow. — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Luckily a butcher soon came by, driving a pig in a wheelbarrow. Who acts: butcher. 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 41

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Luckily a butcher soon came by, driving a pig in a wheelbarrow.

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**Who acts:** butcher · **What happens:** come by, drive · **To what, where:** pig, wheelbarrow

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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 (butcher), 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:pg2591:3:41
# text = Luckily a butcher soon came by, driving a pig in a wheelbarrow.
1	Luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come by** | past | a butcher |  |  |  |  | luckily, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | gerund | a butcher *not said here* | a pig |  | a wheelbarrow |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme in wheelbarrow=Destination |

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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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