--- title: There stood before the door a large stone trough, and she said to Li… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: There stood before the door a large stone trough, and she said to Little Red-Cap, "Take this bucket, dear: yesterday I boiled some meat in this water, now pour it into the stone trough." Who acts: villain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (villain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:14:50 # text = There stood before the door a large stone trough, and she said to Little Red-Cap, "Take this bucket, dear: yesterday I boiled some meat in this water, now pour it into the stone trough." 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 trough trough NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 13 obl _ _ 16 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 boiled boil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 37 pour pour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 trough trough NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | | a large stone trough | | there | before the door | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | villain | | Little and Cap | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to little=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | this bucket | | | | dear *vocative* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme | | 4 | **boil** *in a quote* | past | villain | some meat | | | yesterday | in this water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent meat=Patient in water=Instrument | | 5 | **pour** *in a quote* | infinitive | villain *not said here* | meat | | the stone trough | now | | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into trough=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/14/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/14/51/) - ↑ back to [Little Red Cap](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/14/)