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title: All this while the beer was running out of the cask, for Catherine h… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: All this while the beer was running out of the cask, for Catherine had forgotten to turn the tap off, and so, as soon as the can was full, the liquor ran over the floor of the cellar until it was all out. Who acts: beer, Catherine, liquor. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Cather
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 9

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All this while the beer was running out of the cask, for Catherine had forgotten to turn the tap off, and so, as soon as the can was full, the liquor ran over the floor of the cellar until it was all out.

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**Who acts:** beer, Catherine, liquor · **What happens:** run, forget, turn off, be · **To what, where:** cask, tap, floor

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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 (beer, Catherine, liquor), 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:pg11027:12:9
# text = All this while the beer was running out of the cask, for Catherine had forgotten to turn the tap off, and so, as soon as the can was full, the liquor ran over the floor of the cellar until it was all out.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	liquor	liquor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
37	over	over	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	all	all	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	out	out	ADV	RB	_	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · progressive | the beer |  |  | the cask |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cask=Trajectory |
| 2 | **forget** | past · perfect | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn off** | to-infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | the tap |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tap=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | can | Catherine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **run** | past | the liquor |  |  | the floor of the cellar |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over floor=Trajectory |
| 6 | **is** | past | beer |  |  |  |  | all, out *property* | tree rules |

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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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