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title: Thereupon he took the dog with the golden collar, and said: ‘That is… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 53

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Thereupon he took the dog with the golden collar, and said: ‘That is the wretch!’ and caused live coals to be brought, and these the dog was compelled to devour before the sight of all, until flames burst forth from its throat.

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**Who acts:** huntsman, That, flames · **What happens:** take, say, be, cause, bring, compel · **To what, where:** dog, wretch, live coals, throat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, That, flames), 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:pg2591:31:53
# text = Thereupon he took the dog with the golden collar, and said: ‘That is the wretch!’ and caused live coals to be brought, and these the dog was compelled to devour before the sight of all, until flames burst forth from its throat.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	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	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	before	before	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	burst	burst	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
46	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	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 | huntsman |  | the dog |  |  | with the golden collar; thereupon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | huntsman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | That | the wretch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cause** | past | huntsman *not said here* | live coals |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition coal=Patient |
| 5 | **bring** | to-infinitive · passive | huntsman *not said here* | live coals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |
| 6 | **compel** | past · passive |  | this dog |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 7 | **devour** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before the sight of all |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **burst** | present | flames |  |  | wretch's throat |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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