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title: Then the seven kids dragged the stones thither with all speed, and p… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the seven kids dragged the stones thither with all speed, and put as many of them into this stomach as they could get in; and the mother sewed him up again in the greatest haste, so that he was not aware of anything and never once stirred. Who acts: seven kids, kids, mother, rejoicing. A senten
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 45

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Then the seven kids dragged the stones thither with all speed, and put as many of them into this stomach as they could get in; and the mother sewed him up again in the greatest haste, so that he was not aware of anything and never once stirred.

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**Who acts:** seven kids, kids, mother, rejoicing · **What happens:** drag, put, get in, sew up, not be, not stir · **To what, where:** stones, many, stomach, rejoicing, greatest haste

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven kids, kids, mother, rejoicing), 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:pg2591:35:45
# text = Then the seven kids dragged the stones thither with all speed, and put as many of them into this stomach as they could get in; and the mother sewed him up again in the greatest haste, so that he was not aware of anything and never once stirred.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	45	mark	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	fixed	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	parataxis	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	45	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
50	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	51	advmod	_	_
51	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | past | the seven kids | the stones |  |  | then | with all speed; thither *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | the seven kids *not said here* | many of kids |  | this stomach |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent many=Goal |
| 3 | **get in** | could | kids *= kid* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sew up** | past | the mother | rejoicing |  | the greatest haste | again |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in haste=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | rejoicing |  |  |  |  | of anything; aware *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **stir** | participle | rejoicing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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