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title: Off is off!" said Catherine, and turned round, and being very tired… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Off is off!" said Catherine, and turned round, and being very tired and hot, she went home slowly to cool herself. Who acts: Catherine. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 8

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Off is off!" said Catherine, and turned round, and being very tired and hot, she went home slowly to cool herself.

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**Who acts:** Catherine · **What happens:** say, turn round, be, go, cool · **To what, where:** Catherine · **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:pg11027:12:8
# text = Off is off!" said Catherine, and turned round, and being very tired and hot, she went home slowly to cool herself.
1	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn round** *in a quote* | past | Catherine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  | home, slowly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cool** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | Catherine |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=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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