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title: He raised himself up quickly, but the whole of the hair of his head… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He raised himself up quickly, but the whole of the hair of his head was already golden and shone like the sun. You can imagine how terrified the poor boy was! Who acts: boy, head, You, poor boy. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 54

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He raised himself up quickly, but the whole of the hair of his head was already golden and shone like the sun. You can imagine how terrified the poor boy was!

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**Who acts:** boy, head, You, poor boy · **What happens:** raise up, be, shine, imagine · **To what, where:** boy

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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 (boy, head, You, poor boy), 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:pg2591:59:54
# text = He raised himself up quickly, but the whole of the hair of his head was already golden and shone like the sun. You can imagine how terrified the poor boy was!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	already	already	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise up** | past | boy | boy |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | boy's head |  |  |  |  | golden *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shine** | participle | boy's head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the sun. | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **imagine** | can | You |  |  |  |  | of the hair | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is** | past | the poor boy |  |  |  |  | terrified *property* | tree rules |

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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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