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title: So she took a can and went down into the cellar to draw the beer, an… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So she took a can and went down into the cellar to draw the beer, and while it ran into the can, she bethought herself that perhaps the dog might steal the sausage out of the pan, and so up the cellar stairs she ran, but too late, for the rogue had already got the meat in his mouth and was sneaking 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 6

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So she took a can and went down into the cellar to draw the beer, and while it ran into the can, she bethought herself that perhaps the dog might steal the sausage out of the pan, and so up the cellar stairs she ran, but too late, for the rogue had already got the meat in his mouth and was sneaking off.

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**Who acts:** Catherine, beer, dog, rogue · **What happens:** take, go down, draw, run, bethink, steal · **To what, where:** cellar, beer, Catherine, sausage, pan, cellar stairs

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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, beer, dog, rogue), 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:pg11027:12:6
# text = So she took a can and went down into the cellar to draw the beer, and while it ran into the can, she bethought herself that perhaps the dog might steal the sausage out of the pan, and so up the cellar stairs she ran, but too late, for the rogue had already got the meat in his mouth and was sneaking off.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	bethought	bethink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	too	too	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	rogue	rogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
57	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	already	already	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	52	parataxis	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
66	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
67	sneaking	sneak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	59	conj	_	_
68	off	off	ADP	RP	_	67	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go down** | past | Catherine *not said here* |  |  | the cellar |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **draw** | to-infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | the beer |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | beer |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bethink** | past | Catherine | Catherine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **steal** | might | the dog | the sausage |  | the pan |  | perhaps *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sausage=Theme out pan=Source |
| 7 | **run** | past | Catherine | the cellar stairs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory |
| 8 | **get** | past · perfect | the rogue | the meat |  | rogue's mouth |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus |
| 9 | **sneak off** | past · progressive | the rogue *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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