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title: The ant-king had come in the night with thousands and thousands of a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The ant-king had come in the night with thousands and thousands of ants, and the grateful creatures had by great industry picked up all the millet-seed and gathered them into the sacks. Who acts: ant king, grateful creatures, great industry. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wh
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 49

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The ant-king had come in the night with thousands and thousands of ants, and the grateful creatures had by great industry picked up all the millet-seed and gathered them into the sacks.

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**Who acts:** ant king, grateful creatures, great industry · **What happens:** come, have, pick up, gather · **To what, where:** millet seed, creatures

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ant king, grateful creatures, great industry), 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:pg2591:34:49
# text = The ant-king had come in the night with thousands and thousands of ants, and the grateful creatures had by great industry picked up all the millet-seed and gathered them into the sacks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	millet	millet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | the ant king |  |  |  | night | with thousands and thousands of ants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | participle | the grateful creatures |  |  |  |  | by great industry | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pick up** | participle | great industry *not said here* | all millet seed |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Topic |
| 4 | **gather** | past | the grateful creatures *not said here* | creatures *= creature* |  |  |  | into the sacks | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient into sack=Co-Patient |

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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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