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title: Catherine thought she might as well make use of the new pottery, and… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Catherine thought she might as well make use of the new pottery, and since she had no need of anything in the kitchen, she set out each pot on the ground, and then put others on the top of the palings round the house for ornament. Who acts: Catherine. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob G
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 30

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Catherine thought she might as well make use of the new pottery, and since she had no need of anything in the kitchen, she set out each pot on the ground, and then put others on the top of the palings round the house for ornament.

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**Who acts:** Catherine · **What happens:** think, make, have, set out, put, use · **To what, where:** use, need, pot, ground, others, top · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine), 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:pg11027:12:30
# text = Catherine thought she might as well make use of the new pottery, and since she had no need of anything in the kitchen, she set out each pot on the ground, and then put others on the top of the palings round the house for ornament.
1	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	7	cc	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pottery	pottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
37	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
38	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	palings	paling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	round	round	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | might | Catherine | use of the new pottery |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 3 | **have** | past | Catherine | no need of anything |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient |
| 4 | **set out** | past | Catherine | each pot |  | the ground |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | others |  | the top of the palings round the house for ornament | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme on top=Destination |
| 6 | **use** |  |  | the new pottery |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **need** |  |  | anything |  |  |  |  | nom need «state 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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