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title: So she shook two dishes of peas into the ashes; but the little maide… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So she shook two dishes of peas into the ashes; but the little maiden went out into the garden at the back of the house, and called as before and all the birds came flying, and in half an hour's time all was done, and out they flew again. Who acts: CINDERELLA, little maiden, birds, ashes. A sentence
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 149

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So she shook two dishes of peas into the ashes; but the little maiden went out into the garden at the back of the house, and called as before and all the birds came flying, and in half an hour's time all was done, and out they flew again.

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**Who acts:** CINDERELLA, little maiden, birds, ashes · **What happens:** shake, go out, call, come, fly, do · **To what, where:** two dishes, ashes, garden, all · **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, little maiden, birds, ashes), 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:pg11027:15:149
# text = So she shook two dishes of peas into the ashes; but the little maiden went out into the garden at the back of the house, and called as before and all the birds came flying, and in half an hour's time all was done, and out they flew again.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
41	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	43	det:predet	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	out	out	ADP	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
54	again	again	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | CINDERELLA | two dishes of peas |  | the ashes |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme into ash=Destination |
| 2 | **go out** | past | the little maiden |  |  | the garden |  | at the back of the house; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | all birds |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | gerund | all birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | past · passive |  | all |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **fly** | past | ashes *= ash* |  |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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