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title: We baked the meat yesterday, so that grandmother, who is very weak,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: We baked the meat yesterday, so that grandmother, who is very weak, might have a nice strengthening meal." Who acts: We, grandmother. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 11

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We baked the meat yesterday, so that grandmother, who is very weak, might have a nice strengthening meal."

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**Who acts:** We, grandmother · **What happens:** bake, be, have, strengthen · **To what, where:** meat, nice strengthening meal

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, grandmother), 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:pg11027:14:11
# text = We baked the meat yesterday, so that grandmother, who is very weak, might have a nice strengthening meal."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	baked	bake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	strengthening	strengthen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | past | We | the meat |  |  | yesterday |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Product |
| 2 | **is** | present | grandmother |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | might |  | a nice strengthening meal |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 4 | **strengthen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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