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title: Thus she went roving on through the wide world, and looked neither t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus she went roving on through the wide world, and looked neither to the right hand nor to the left, nor took any rest, for seven years. Who acts: Lily. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 36

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Thus she went roving on through the wide world, and looked neither to the right hand nor to the left, nor took any rest, for seven years.

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**Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** go, rove on, look, take · **To what, where:** wide world, rest

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lily), 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:pg2591:44:36
# text = Thus she went roving on through the wide world, and looked neither to the right hand nor to the left, nor took any rest, for seven years.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	roving	rove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Lily |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rove on** | gerund | Lily *not said here* |  |  | the wide world |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory |
| 3 | **look** | past | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the right hand nor the left; neither *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to hand=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | Lily *not said here* | any rest |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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