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title: Her mother said, "No, my dear daughter; it is too cold, you will be… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mother said, "No, my dear daughter; it is too cold, you will be frozen!" but as her girl let her have no peace, she at last consented, and made her a beautiful fur cloak to put on; she also gave her buttered bread and cooked meat to eat on her way. Who acts: mother, forest, girl. A sentence of «
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 43

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Her mother said, "No, my dear daughter; it is too cold, you will be frozen!" but as her girl let her have no peace, she at last consented, and made her a beautiful fur cloak to put on; she also gave her buttered bread and cooked meat to eat on her way.

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**Who acts:** mother, forest, girl · **What happens:** say, be, freeze, let, have, consent · **To what, where:** you, mother, peace, girl, beautiful fur cloak, bread · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, forest, girl), 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:pg11027:24:43
# text = Her mother said, "No, my dear daughter; it is too cold, you will be frozen!" but as her girl let her have no peace, she at last consented, and made her a beautiful fur cloak to put on; she also gave her buttered bread and cooked meat to eat on her way.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	also	also	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
52	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	buttered	butter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	ccomp	_	_
54	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	amod	_	_
57	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	acl	_	_
60	on	on	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | girl's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | forest |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **freeze** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **let** | past | girl's girl | mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | infinitive | mother *not said here* | no peace |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
| 6 | **consent** | participle · passive |  | girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | past |  | a beautiful fur cloak | girl |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary cloak=Product |
| 8 | **put on** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **give** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **butter** | past | girl | bread and cooked meat |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bread=Destination |
| 11 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 12 | **eat** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  | girl's way |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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