--- title: Inside the mill were twenty of the miller’s men hewing a stone, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Inside the mill were twenty of the miller’s men hewing a stone, and as they went ‘Hick hack, hick hack, hick hack,’ the mill went ‘Click clack, click clack, click clack.’ Who acts: men, shoes, mill. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Juniper-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/) / 86 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 86 Inside the mill were twenty of the miller’s men hewing a stone, and as they went ‘Hick hack, hick hack, hick hack,’ the mill went ‘Click clack, click clack, click clack.’ **Who acts:** men, shoes, mill · **What happens:** be, hew, go, click · **To what, where:** twenty, mill, stone, Hick hack, clack 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 (men, shoes, mill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:38:86 # text = Inside the mill were twenty of the miller’s men hewing a stone, and as they went ‘Hick hack, hick hack, hick hack,’ the mill went ‘Click clack, click clack, click clack.’ 1 Inside inside ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 miller miller NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’s 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 11 hewing hew VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Hick hick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hack hack NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 hick hick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 hack hack NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 hick hick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hack hack NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’ ' CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 mill mill NOUN NN _ 32 nsubj _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 33 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Click click VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 35 clack clack NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 click click VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 38 clack clack NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 click click VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 41 clack clack NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | twenty | | the mill | | of the miller's men | tree rules | | 2 | **hew** | gerund | the miller's men *not said here* | a stone | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | | 3 | **go** | past | shoes *= shoe* | Hick hack and hick hack and hick hack | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | the mill | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 | | 7 | **click** | infinitive | | clack | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clack=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/87/) - ↑ back to [The Juniper-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/)