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title: Then he took the string in his hand, and drove off the pig by a side… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took the string in his hand, and drove off the pig by a side path; while Hans went on the way homewards free from care. Who acts: Hark, 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 75

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Then he took the string in his hand, and drove off the pig by a side path; while Hans went on the way homewards free from care.

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**Who acts:** Hark, Hans · **What happens:** take, drive off, go · **To what, where:** string, hand, pig, way homewards

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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 (Hark, 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:pg2591:3:75
# text = Then he took the string in his hand, and drove off the pig by a side path; while Hans went on the way homewards free from care.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	homewards	homeward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Hark | the string |  | Hark's hand | then |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent string=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **drive off** | past | Hark *not said here* | the pig |  |  |  | by a side path | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme by path=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | past | Hans |  |  | way homewards |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on homeward=Location |

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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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