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title: But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Ashput… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Ashputtel had planted; and on the branch sat a little dove singing: Who acts: homewards, little dove. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 122

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But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Ashputtel had planted; and on the branch sat a little dove singing:

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**Who acts:** homewards, little dove · **What happens:** have, pass, plant, sit, sing · **To what, where:** way, hazel tree, little dove, branch

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (homewards, little dove), 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:pg2591:33:122
# text = But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Ashputtel had planted; and on the branch sat a little dove singing:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	Ashputtel	Ashputtel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | homewards *= homeward* |  |  | homewards's way |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | homewards *= homeward* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the hazel tree | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by tree=Location |
| 3 | **plant** | past · perfect · passive |  | the hazel tree |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **sit** | past | homewards *= homeward* *not said here* | a little dove |  | the branch |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme on branch=Location |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | a little dove *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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