--- title: "In such and such a house; you must creep into it through the kitche… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: "In such and such a house; you must creep into it through the kitchen-sink; you will find cakes, and bacon, and sausages, and as much of them as you can eat," and he described to him exactly his father's house. Who acts: you, wolf. 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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 (you, wolf), 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:pg11027:17:163 # text = "In such and such a house; you must creep into it through the kitchen-sink; you will find cakes, and bacon, and sausages, and as much of them as you can eat," and he described to him exactly his father's house. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 In in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 3 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 7 det:predet _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 creep creep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 sink sink NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 23 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 bacon bacon NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 sausages sausage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 as as ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 described describe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ _ 47 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 50 's 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep** *in a quote* | must | you | | | stomach | | through the kitchen sink | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | | 2 | **find** *in a quote* | future | you | cakes and bacon and sausages | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Topic | | 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | can | you | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **describe** | past | wolf | wolf's father's house | pastor | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to he=be' | 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 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/162/) - next →: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/164/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/)