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title: As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse. Who acts: master, man. 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 9

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As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.

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**Who acts:** master, man · **What happens:** go, drag, come, trot · **To what, where:** one foot, sight

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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 (master, man), 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:pg2591:3:9
# text = As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lazily	lazily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	gaily	gaily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	along	along	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drag** | gerund | master *not said here* | one foot |  |  | after another |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | a man |  |  | sight |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 4 | **trot** | gerund | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a capital horse; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=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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