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title: Then Hans hastened home and brought a fowler’s net with little bells… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Hans hastened home and brought a fowler’s net with little bells and hung it round about her, and she still went on sleeping. Who acts: Hans. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 47

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Then Hans hastened home and brought a fowler’s net with little bells and hung it round about her, and she still went on sleeping.

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**Who acts:** Hans · **What happens:** hasten, bring, hang, go · **To what, where:** net, sleeping

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. 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:pg2591:32:47
# text = Then Hans hastened home and brought a fowler’s net with little bells and hung it round about her, and she still went on sleeping.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past | Hans |  |  |  | then | home *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Hans *not said here* | a fowler's net |  |  |  | with little bells | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent net=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | past | Hans *not said here* | net |  |  |  | about Hans; round *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme about she=Destination |
| 4 | **go** | past | Hans |  |  | sleeping | still |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sleeping=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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