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title: Neither did she make Mother Holle's bed as she ought, and did not sh… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither did she make Mother Holle's bed as she ought, and did not shake it so as to make the feathers fly up. Who acts: thing, feathers. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 43

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Neither did she make Mother Holle's bed as she ought, and did not shake it so as to make the feathers fly up.

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**Who acts:** thing, feathers · **What happens:** make, not shake, fly up · **To what, where:** bed

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, feathers), 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:pg11027:20:43
# text = Neither did she make Mother Holle's bed as she ought, and did not shake it so as to make the feathers fly up.
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · do-support | thing | Mother's bed |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product |
| 2 | **not** **shake** | past · do-support |  | bed |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **fly up** | present | the feathers |  |  |  |  |  | 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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