--- title: So they called Cinderella, and said, "Now, comb our hair, brush our… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: So they called Cinderella, and said, "Now, comb our hair, brush our shoes, and tie our sashes for us, for we are going to dance at the king's feast." Who acts: sons, we. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/136/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/) / 136 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 136 So they called Cinderella, and said, "Now, comb our hair, brush our shoes, and tie our sashes for us, for we are going to dance at the king's feast." **Who acts:** sons, we · **What happens:** call, say, comb, brush, tie, go · **To what, where:** Cinderella, hair, shoes, sashes, feast · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, we), 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:pg11027:15:136 # text = So they called Cinderella, and said, "Now, comb our hair, brush our shoes, and tie our sashes for us, for we are going to dance at the king's feast." 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Cinderella Cinderella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 comb comb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 13 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 brush brush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 tie tie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 sashes sash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | sons *= son* | | Cinderella | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cinderella=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sons *= son* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **comb** *in a quote* | infinitive | | our hair | | | now | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 4 | **brush** *in a quote* | infinitive | | our shoes | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | | 5 | **tie** *in a quote* | present | sons *= son* *not said here* | our sashes | | | | for us | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sash=Patient | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **dance** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | | the king's feast | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at feast=Location | 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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/137/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/)