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title: Then he pushed him in head first, tied up the sack, and soon swung u… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he pushed him in head first, tied up the sack, and soon swung up the searcher after wisdom dangling in the air. Who acts: sack, searcher. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 38

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Then he pushed him in head first, tied up the sack, and soon swung up the searcher after wisdom dangling in the air.

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**Who acts:** sack, searcher · **What happens:** push, tie up, swing up, dangle · **To what, where:** gardener, head, sack, searcher, air

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sack, searcher), 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:pg2591:39:38
# text = Then he pushed him in head first, tied up the sack, and soon swung up the searcher after wisdom dangling in the air.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	swung	swing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	searcher	searcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	dangling	dangle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past | sack | gardener |  | head | then | first *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in head=Trajectory |
| 2 | **tie up** | participle | sack *not said here* | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient |
| 3 | **swing up** | participle |  | the searcher |  |  | after wisdom | soon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent searcher=Theme |
| 4 | **dangle** | gerund | the searcher *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=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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