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title: So he took the purse, put up his fiddle, and travelled on very pleas… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he took the purse, put up his fiddle, and travelled on very pleased with his bargain. Who acts: countryman. 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 28

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So he took the purse, put up his fiddle, and travelled on very pleased with his bargain.

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**Who acts:** countryman · **What happens:** take, put up, travel, bargain · **To what, where:** purse, fiddle, pleased

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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 (countryman), 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:pg2591:33:28
# text = So he took the purse, put up his fiddle, and travelled on very pleased with his bargain.
1	So	so	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	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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 | countryman | the purse |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme |
| 2 | **put up** | infinitive | countryman *not said here* | countryman's fiddle |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Goal |
| 3 | **travel** | past | countryman *not said here* |  |  | pleased |  | with countryman's bargain | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pleased=Trajectory |
| 4 | **bargain** |  | countryman |  |  |  |  |  | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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