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title: But the fox managed to tie his legs together and bound all so hard a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the fox managed to tie his legs together and bound all so hard and fast that with all his strength he could not set himself free. Who acts: fox. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Horse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 10

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But the fox managed to tie his legs together and bound all so hard and fast that with all his strength he could not set himself free.

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**Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** manage, tie, bound, not set · **To what, where:** legs, that, fox

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Horse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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:pg2591:45:10
# text = But the fox managed to tie his legs together and bound all so hard and fast that with all his strength he could not set himself free.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tie** | to-infinitive | the fox *not said here* | fox's legs |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 3 | **bound** | present | the fox *not said here* | that |  |  |  | with fox's strength; hard *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location that=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **set** | could | fox | fox |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient himself=Result |

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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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