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title: So saying, he trotted off on the student’s nag, and left the poor fe… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, he trotted off on the student’s nag, and left the poor fellow to gather wisdom till somebody should come and let him down. Who acts: rest, somebody. 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 41

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So saying, he trotted off on the student’s nag, and left the poor fellow to gather wisdom till somebody should come and let him down.

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**Who acts:** rest, somebody · **What happens:** say, trot off, leave, gather, come, let down · **To what, where:** nag, poor fellow, wisdom, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rest, somebody), 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:pg2591:39:41
# text = So saying, he trotted off on the student’s nag, and left the poor fellow to gather wisdom till somebody should come and let him down.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	trotted	trot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	nag	nag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trot off** | past | rest |  |  | the student's nag |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on nag=Trajectory |
| 3 | **leave** | past | rest *not said here* | the poor fellow |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme |
| 4 | **gather** | to-infinitive | rest *not said here* | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | should | somebody |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **let down** | infinitive | somebody *not said here* | rest |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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