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title: Mother Holle led her, too, to the great door; but while she was stan… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother Holle led her, too, to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her. " Who acts: Mother. 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 46

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Mother Holle led her, too, to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her. "

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**Who acts:** Mother · **What happens:** lead, stand, empty · **To what, where:** Holle, great door, door, big kettleful

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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 (Mother), 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:pg11027:20:46
# text = Mother Holle led her, too, to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her. "
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	kettleful	kettleful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	emptied	empty	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Mother | Holle |  | the great door |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to door=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | mother |  |  | door |  | instead the gold | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location |
| 3 | **empty** | past · passive |  | a big kettleful of pitch |  |  |  | over mother | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

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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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