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title: Not many minutes after Catherine found the door was still quite as h… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Not many minutes after Catherine found the door was still quite as heavy, and said again to Fred, "Now I must throw down this door." Who acts: door, I. 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 86

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Not many minutes after Catherine found the door was still quite as heavy, and said again to Fred, "Now I must throw down this door."

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**Who acts:** door, I · **What happens:** find, be, say, throw down · **To what, where:** Fred, door · **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, 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:pg11027:12:86
# text = Not many minutes after Catherine found the door was still quite as heavy, and said again to Fred, "Now I must throw down this door."
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Fred	Fred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past |  |  |  |  | minute |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the door |  |  |  | still | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Fred |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fred=Recipient |
| 4 | **throw down** *in a quote* | must | I | this door |  |  | now |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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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