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title: ‘When the hounds are following me, I can spring into a tree and save… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘When the hounds are following me, I can spring into a tree and save myself.’ Who acts: hounds, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 12

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‘When the hounds are following me, I can spring into a tree and save myself.’

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**Who acts:** hounds, I · **What happens:** follow, spring, save · **To what, where:** me, tree, myself

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hounds, I), 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:pg2591:42:12
# text = ‘When the hounds are following me, I can spring into a tree and save myself.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present · progressive | the hounds | me |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **spring** | can | I |  |  | a tree |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | I *not said here* | myself |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=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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