--- title: When it was sodden she hung it on the shoulder of the poor girl, and… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: When it was sodden she hung it on the shoulder of the poor girl, and gave her an axe, that she might go upon the frozen pond and cut a hole in the ice to drag the net. Who acts: it, mother. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Three Little Men in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/) / 58 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 58 When it was sodden she hung it on the shoulder of the poor girl, and gave her an axe, that she might go upon the frozen pond and cut a hole in the ice to drag the net. **Who acts:** it, mother · **What happens:** be, hang, give, go, freeze, cut · **To what, where:** net, shoulder, axe, mother, frozen pond, hole 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 (it, mother), 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:pg11027:24:58 # text = When it was sodden she hung it on the shoulder of the poor girl, and gave her an axe, that she might go upon the frozen pond and cut a hole in the ice to drag the net. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 sodden sodden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | sodden *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hang** | past | mother | net | | the shoulder of the poor girl | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination | | 3 | **give** | past | mother *not said here* | a axe | mother | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient axe=Theme | | 4 | **go** | might | mother | | | the frozen pond | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon pond=Location | | 5 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **cut** | past | mother *not said here* | a hole | | the ice | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | | 7 | **drag** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | the net | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/59/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Men in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/)