--- title: They tugged his hair with their hands, put their feet upon his back… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They tugged his hair with their hands, put their feet upon his back and rolled him about, or they took a hazel-switch and beat him, and when he growled they laughed. Who acts: children, bear. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/) / 31 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 31 They tugged his hair with their hands, put their feet upon his back and rolled him about, or they took a hazel-switch and beat him, and when he growled they laughed. **Who acts:** children, bear · **What happens:** tug, put, roll, take, beat, growl · **To what, where:** hair, feet, back, bear, hazel switch This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:60:31 # text = They tugged his hair with their hands, put their feet upon his back and rolled him about, or they took a hazel-switch and beat him, and when he growled they laughed. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tugged tug VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 hazel hazel NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 switch switch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 growled growl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tug** | past | children *= child* | bear's hair | | | | with children's hands | vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Experiencer with hand=Instrument | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children's feet | | bear's back | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon back=Destination | | 3 | **roll** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | bear | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent | | 4 | **take** | past | children *= child* | a hazel switch | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent switch=Theme | | 5 | **beat** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | bear | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 6 | **growl** | past | bear | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **laugh** | past | children *= child* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/32/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/)