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title: He had the chain in his right claw and the shoes in his left, and he… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 85

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He had the chain in his right claw and the shoes in his left, and he flew right away to a mill, and the mill went ‘Click clack, click clack, click clack.’

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**Who acts:** father, mill · **What happens:** have, fly, go, click · **To what, where:** chain, right claw, clack

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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 (father, mill), 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:pg2591:38:85
# text = He had the chain in his right claw and the shoes in his left, and he flew right away to a mill, and the mill went ‘Click clack, click clack, click clack.’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	right	right	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	_	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Click	click	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
31	clack	clack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	click	click	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	clack	clack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	click	click	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	clack	clack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | father | the chain |  | father's right claw and the shoes in father's left |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient |
| 2 | **fly** | past | father |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | the mill |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **click** | infinitive |  | clack |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clack=Theme |
| 5 | **click** | infinitive |  | clack |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clack=Theme |
| 6 | **click** | infinitive |  | clack |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clack=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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