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title: When he was above, he said to the little man: ‘Now go and bind the o… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was above, he said to the little man: ‘Now go and bind the old witch, and carry her before the judge.’ Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 30

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When he was above, he said to the little man: ‘Now go and bind the old witch, and carry her before the judge.’

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** be, say, go, bind, carry · **To what, where:** old witch, witch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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:pg2591:46:30
# text = When he was above, he said to the little man: ‘Now go and bind the old witch, and carry her before the judge.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	above	above	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bind	bind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | soldier |  |  |  |  | above *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | soldier |  |  |  |  | to the little man | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to man=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bind** | infinitive |  | the old witch |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient |
| 5 | **carry** | infinitive |  | witch |  |  | before the judge |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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