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title: All this while Catherine still had the door upon her shoulder, and,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: All this while Catherine still had the door upon her shoulder, and, as it pressed very heavily, she thought the dried apples were in fault, and said to Fred, "I must throw down these apples." " Who acts: Catherine, door, dried apples, I. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherin
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 75

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All this while Catherine still had the door upon her shoulder, and, as it pressed very heavily, she thought the dried apples were in fault, and said to Fred, "I must throw down these apples." "

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**Who acts:** Catherine, door, dried apples, I · **What happens:** have, press, think, dry, be, say · **To what, where:** door, fault, Fred, apples · **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, door, dried apples, I), 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:pg11027:12:75
# text = All this while Catherine still had the door upon her shoulder, and, as it pressed very heavily, she thought the dried apples were in fault, and said to Fred, "I must throw down these apples." "
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Fred	Fred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Catherine | the door |  |  | still | upon Catherine's shoulder | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **press** | past | door |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | the dried apples |  |  | fault |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Fred |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fred=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **throw down** *in a quote* | must | I | this apples |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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