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title: In the middle of the fields the parson met them, and when he saw the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the fields the parson met them, and when he saw the procession he said: ‘For shame, you good-for-nothing girls, why are you running across the fields after this young man? Who acts: parson, procession, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with i
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 33

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In the middle of the fields the parson met them, and when he saw the procession he said: ‘For shame, you good-for-nothing girls, why are you running across the fields after this young man?

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**Who acts:** parson, procession, you · **What happens:** meet, see, say, run · **To what, where:** others, middle, fields · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parson, procession, you), 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:pg2591:48:33
# text = In the middle of the fields the parson met them, and when he saw the procession he said: ‘For shame, you good-for-nothing girls, why are you running across the fields after this young man?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	parson	parson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	For	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	31	compound	_	_
31	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	acl	_	_
37	across	across	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	after	after	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | the parson | others *= other* |  | the middle of the fields |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | parson |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the procession |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **run** | present · progressive | you |  |  | the fields | after this young man |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory |

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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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