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title: Soon, however, they came to a little brook, and as there was no brid… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon, however, they came to a little brook, and as there was no bridge or foot-plank, they did not know how they were to get over it. Who acts: others, bridge. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 13

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Soon, however, they came to a little brook, and as there was no bridge or foot-plank, they did not know how they were to get over it.

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**Who acts:** others, bridge · **What happens:** come, be, not know, get · **To what, where:** little brook, plank · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, bridge), 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:pg2591:7:13
# text = Soon, however, they came to a little brook, and as there was no bridge or foot-plank, they did not know how they were to get over it.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | others *= other* |  |  | a little brook |  | however, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to brook=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | no bridge or foot plank |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get** | past | others *= other* |  |  | plank |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination |

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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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