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title: "The door I will willingly carry," replied Catherine, "but the apple… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "The door I will willingly carry," replied Catherine, "but the apples and the vinegar will be too heavy, so I shall hang them on the door and make that carry them!" Who acts: door, Catherine, apples, that. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its depend
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 69

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"The door I will willingly carry," replied Catherine, "but the apples and the vinegar will be too heavy, so I shall hang them on the door and make that carry them!"

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**Who acts:** door, Catherine, apples, that · **What happens:** carry, reply, be, hang, make · **To what, where:** apples, door, that · **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 (door, Catherine, apples, that), 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:pg11027:12:69
# text = "The door I will willingly carry," replied Catherine, "but the apples and the vinegar will be too heavy, so I shall hang them on the door and make that carry them!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	obj	_	_
36	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** *in a quote* | future | the door |  |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: express* | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the apples and the vinegar |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hang** *in a quote* | shall | Catherine | apples *= apple* |  | the door |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on door=Destination |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **carry** *in a quote* | infinitive | that *not said here* | apples *= apple* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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