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title: Away ran the husband upstairs, and saw thousands of birds sitting up… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Away ran the husband upstairs, and saw thousands of birds sitting upon the floor eating up his corn, with the sparrow in the midst of them. Who acts: birds. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 46

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Away ran the husband upstairs, and saw thousands of birds sitting upon the floor eating up his corn, with the sparrow in the midst of them.

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**Who acts:** birds · **What happens:** run, see, sit, eat up · **To what, where:** husband, thousands, floor, corn

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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:pg2591:9:46
# text = Away ran the husband upstairs, and saw thousands of birds sitting upon the floor eating up his corn, with the sparrow in the midst of them.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past |  | the husband |  |  |  | away, upstairs *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | thousands of birds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thousand=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | birds *not said here* |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon floor=Location |
| 4 | **eat up** | gerund | birds *not said here* | husband's corn |  |  |  | with the sparrow in the midst of horses | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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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