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title: And when Cinderella begged very hard to go, she said, "If you can in… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Cinderella begged very hard to go, she said, "If you can in one hour's time pick two of these dishes of pease out of the ashes, you shall go too." Who acts: Cinderella, dishes, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 148

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And when Cinderella begged very hard to go, she said, "If you can in one hour's time pick two of these dishes of pease out of the ashes, you shall go too."

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**Who acts:** Cinderella, dishes, you · **What happens:** beg, go, say, pick, pease · **To what, where:** two, ashes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Cinderella, dishes, you), 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:pg11027:15:148
# text = And when Cinderella begged very hard to go, she said, "If you can in one hour's time pick two of these dishes of pease out of the ashes, you shall go too."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	pease	pease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Cinderella |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Cinderella *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | CINDERELLA |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pick** *in a quote* | can |  | two of this dishes |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient |
| 5 | **pease** *in a quote* | infinitive | this dishes *not said here* |  |  | the ashes |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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