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title: The poor horse was very melancholy, and wandered up and down in the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor horse was very melancholy, and wandered up and down in the wood, seeking some little shelter from the cold wind and rain. Who acts: poor horse, melancholy. 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 3

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The poor horse was very melancholy, and wandered up and down in the wood, seeking some little shelter from the cold wind and rain.

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**Who acts:** poor horse, melancholy · **What happens:** be, wander, seek · **To what, where:** melancholy, wood, little shelter, cold wind

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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 (poor horse, melancholy), 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:pg2591:45:3
# text = The poor horse was very melancholy, and wandered up and down in the wood, seeking some little shelter from the cold wind and rain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the poor horse | melancholy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wander** | past | melancholy *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **seek** | gerund | melancholy *not said here* | some little shelter |  | the cold wind and rain |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=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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