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title: But he ran on into the middle of the street, with a slipper on one f… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he ran on into the middle of the street, with a slipper on one foot and a sock on the other; he still had on his apron, and still held the gold chain and the pincers in his hands, and so he stood gazing up at the bird, while the sun came shining brightly down on the street. Who acts: goldsmith, 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 62

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But he ran on into the middle of the street, with a slipper on one foot and a sock on the other; he still had on his apron, and still held the gold chain and the pincers in his hands, and so he stood gazing up at the bird, while the sun came shining brightly down on the street.

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**Who acts:** goldsmith, sun · **What happens:** run on, have, hold, stand, gaze up, come · **To what, where:** middle, apron, gold chain, hands, street

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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 (goldsmith, sun), 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:pg2591:38:62
# text = But he ran on into the middle of the street, with a slipper on one foot and a sock on the other; he still had on his apron, and still held the gold chain and the pincers in his hands, and so he stood gazing up at the bird, while the sun came shining brightly down on the street.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	still	still	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	pincers	pincer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
49	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	xcomp	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
58	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
59	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	58	xcomp	_	_
60	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	down	down	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
62	on	on	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run on** | past | goldsmith |  |  |  |  | into the middle of the street *result*; with a slipper; on one foot and a sock; on the other | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into middle=Result |
| 2 | **have** | past | goldsmith |  |  | goldsmith's apron | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | past | goldsmith *not said here* | the gold chain and the pincers |  | goldsmith's hands | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chain=Theme in hand=Location |
| 4 | **stand** | past | goldsmith |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **gaze up** | gerund | goldsmith *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **shine** | gerund | the sun *not said here* |  |  | the street |  | down *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on street=Location |

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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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