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title: Then he plucked the flower, and set out and travelled day and night,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he plucked the flower, and set out and travelled day and night, till he came again to the castle. Who acts: spell. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 41

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Then he plucked the flower, and set out and travelled day and night, till he came again to the castle.

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**Who acts:** spell · **What happens:** pluck, set out, travel, come · **To what, where:** flower, castle

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spell), 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:pg2591:4:41
# text = Then he plucked the flower, and set out and travelled day and night, till he came again to the castle.
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	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | past | spell | the flower |  |  | then |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 2 | **set out** | infinitive | spell *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **travel** | past | spell *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | spell |  |  | the castle | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_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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