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title: The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the win… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him. Who acts: little man, bi
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 66

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The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him.

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**Who acts:** little man, big fish, feeble creature, strength, fish, there · **What happens:** sit, tangle up, make, have, pull out, keep · **To what, where:** fishing, wind, bite, strength, fish, upper hand

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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 (little man, big fish, feeble creature, strength), 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:pg2591:60:66
# text = The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	there	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	obj	_	_
56	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · perfect · progressive | the little man | there's fishing |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme |
| 2 | **tangle up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wind |  |  |  | with the fishing line; unluckily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | a big fish | a bite |  |  |  | late *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Product |
| 4 | **have** | past | the feeble creature | strength |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pull out** | to-infinitive | strength *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **keep** | past | the fish | the upper hand |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 7 | **pull** | past | the fish *not said here* | the dwarf |  |  |  | towards man | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme towards he=Destination |
| 8 | **fish** |  | there *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=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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