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title: When it was at an end, he would have held her fast by the hand, but… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When it was at an end, he would have held her fast by the hand, but she slipped away, and sprang so quickly through the crowd that he lost sight of her: and she ran as fast as she could into her little cabin under the stairs. Who acts: room, dance, king. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 214

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When it was at an end, he would have held her fast by the hand, but she slipped away, and sprang so quickly through the crowd that he lost sight of her: and she ran as fast as she could into her little cabin under the stairs.

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**Who acts:** room, dance, king · **What happens:** be, hold, slip away, spring, lose, run · **To what, where:** end, dance, crowd, sight, little cabin

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, dance, king), 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:pg2591:59:214
# text = When it was at an end, he would have held her fast by the hand, but she slipped away, and sprang so quickly through the crowd that he lost sight of her: and she ran as fast as she could into her little cabin under the stairs.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
33	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
40	as	as	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
49	under	under	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | room |  |  |  | at a end |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | would · perfect |  | dance |  |  |  | by the hand; fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by hand=Location |
| 3 | **slip away** | past | dance |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **spring** | past | dance *not said here* |  |  | the crowd |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crowd=Trajectory |
| 5 | **lose** | past | king | sight of dance |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality |
| 6 | **run** | past | dance |  |  |  |  | into dance's little cabin *result*; under the stairs; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cabin=Result |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | dance |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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