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title: And out of compassion she took out her butter, and greased the ruts… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And out of compassion she took out her butter, and greased the ruts over right and left, so that the wheels might run more easily through them, and, while she stooped in doing this, a cheese rolled out of her pocket down the mountain. Who acts: Fred, wheels, cheese. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stor
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 43

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And out of compassion she took out her butter, and greased the ruts over right and left, so that the wheels might run more easily through them, and, while she stooped in doing this, a cheese rolled out of her pocket down the mountain.

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**Who acts:** Fred, wheels, cheese · **What happens:** take out, grease, leave, run, stoop, do · **To what, where:** butter, compassion, ruts, this, pocket

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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 (Fred, wheels, cheese), 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:pg11027:12:43
# text = And out of compassion she took out her butter, and greased the ruts over right and left, so that the wheels might run more easily through them, and, while she stooped in doing this, a cheese rolled out of her pocket down the mountain.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	greased	grease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ruts	rut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
36	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
38	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
42	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	down	down	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take out** | past | Fred | Fred's butter |  | compassion |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme out compassion=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **grease** | past | Fred *not said here* | the ruts |  |  |  | right *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent rut=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | past | Fred *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | might | the wheels |  |  |  |  | through ruts *= rut*; easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory |
| 5 | **stoop** | past | Fred |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** | gerund | Fred *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 7 | **roll out** | participle | a cheese *not said here* | Fred's pocket down the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Theme |

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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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