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title: The children, full of pity, at once took tight hold of the little ma… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The children, full of pity, at once took tight hold of the little man, and pulled against the eagle so long that at last he let his booty go. Who acts: eagle, booty. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 81

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The children, full of pity, at once took tight hold of the little man, and pulled against the eagle so long that at last he let his booty go.

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**Who acts:** eagle, booty · **What happens:** take, pull, let, go, hold · **To what, where:** tight hold, booty, last, little man

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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 (eagle, booty), 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:pg2591:60:81
# text = The children, full of pity, at once took tight hold of the little man, and pulled against the eagle so long that at last he let his booty go.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	booty	booty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  | tight hold of the little man |  |  |  | once *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | past |  |  |  |  |  | against the eagle | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against eagle=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | past | eagle | eagle's booty |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | eagle's booty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | the little man |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act 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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