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title: With that the bird let fall the gold chain, and it fell just round t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With that the bird let fall the gold chain, and it fell just round the man’s neck, so that it fitted him exactly. Who acts: chain. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 129

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With that the bird let fall the gold chain, and it fell just round the man’s neck, so that it fitted him exactly.

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**Who acts:** chain · **What happens:** let, fall, fit · **To what, where:** gold chain, neck, man

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chain), 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:pg2591:38:129
# text = With that the bird let fall the gold chain, and it fell just round the man’s neck, so that it fitted him exactly.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	round	round	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fitted	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with the bird | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive |  | the gold chain |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient chain=Result |
| 3 | **fall** | past | chain |  |  | the man's neck |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round neck=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fit** | past | chain | man |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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