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title: So she poured out the vinegar, and as it dropped on them the thieves… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So she poured out the vinegar, and as it dropped on them the thieves said, "Ah! the dew is beginning to fall." Who acts: Fred, vinegar, thieves, dew. 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 85

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So she poured out the vinegar, and as it dropped on them the thieves said, "Ah! the dew is beginning to fall."

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**Who acts:** Fred, vinegar, thieves, dew · **What happens:** pour out, drop, say, begin, fall · **To what, where:** vinegar · **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 (Fred, vinegar, thieves, dew), 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:pg11027:12:85
# text = So she poured out the vinegar, and as it dropped on them the thieves said, "Ah! the dew is beginning to fall."
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	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour out** | past | Fred | the vinegar |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vinegar=Patient |
| 2 | **drop** | past | vinegar |  |  |  |  | on leaves *= leaf* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the thieves |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the dew |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **fall** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the dew *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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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