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title: They often ran about the forest alone and gathered red berries, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They often ran about the forest alone and gathered red berries, and no beasts did them any harm, but came close to them trustfully. Who acts: children, beasts. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 7

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They often ran about the forest alone and gathered red berries, and no beasts did them any harm, but came close to them trustfully.

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**Who acts:** children, beasts · **What happens:** run, gather, do, come · **To what, where:** red berries, children

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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 (children, beasts), 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:pg2591:60:7
# text = They often ran about the forest alone and gathered red berries, and no beasts did them any harm, but came close to them trustfully.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	trustfully	trustfully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | about the forest; alone, often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about forest=Trajectory |
| 2 | **gather** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | red berries |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | no beasts | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  | children *= child* |  |  | close, trustfully *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |

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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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