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title: And as he bent over to do so, the evil spirit urged her, and crash!… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And as he bent over to do so, the evil spirit urged her, and crash! down went the lid, and off went the little boy’s head. Who acts: boy, evil spirit. 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 31

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And as he bent over to do so, the evil spirit urged her, and crash! down went the lid, and off went the little boy’s head.

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**Who acts:** boy, evil spirit · **What happens:** bend over, do, urge, go · **To what, where:** thought, lid, head

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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 (boy, evil spirit), 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:pg2591:38:31
# text = And as he bent over to do so, the evil spirit urged her, and crash! down went the lid, and off went the little boy’s head.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	urged	urge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	off	off	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend over** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **urge** | past | the evil spirit |  | thought |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **go** | past |  | the lid |  |  |  | crash *vocative*; down *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past |  | the little boy's head |  |  |  | off *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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