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title: Then he sprang from the couch dreadfully frightened, ran to the well… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he sprang from the couch dreadfully frightened, ran to the well, filled a cup that was standing by him full of water, and hastened to get away in time. Who acts: door, cup. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 39

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Then he sprang from the couch dreadfully frightened, ran to the well, filled a cup that was standing by him full of water, and hastened to get away in time.

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**Who acts:** door, cup · **What happens:** spring, frighten, run, fill, stand, hasten · **To what, where:** couch, cup

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, cup), 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:pg2591:49:39
# text = Then he sprang from the couch dreadfully frightened, ran to the well, filled a cup that was standing by him full of water, and hastened to get away in time.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | door |  |  | the couch | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from couch=Trajectory |
| 2 | **frighten** | participle |  | the couch *not said here* |  |  |  | dreadfully *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run** | past | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the well *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to well=Result |
| 4 | **fill** | past | door *not said here* | a cup |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |
| 5 | **stand** | past · progressive | a cup |  |  |  |  | by door; full *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |
| 6 | **hasten** | participle | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **get away** | to-infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  |  | time | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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