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title: She sat down upon a hillock, and cried so much that her tears flowed… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: She sat down upon a hillock, and cried so much that her tears flowed almost like rivers out of her eyes! Who acts: sister, tears. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 5

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She sat down upon a hillock, and cried so much that her tears flowed almost like rivers out of her eyes!

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**Who acts:** sister, tears · **What happens:** sit down, cry, flow · **To what, where:** hillock, eyes

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, tears), 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:pg11027:25:5
# text = She sat down upon a hillock, and cried so much that her tears flowed almost like rivers out of her eyes!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hillock	hillock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | sister |  |  | a hillock |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hillock=Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flow** | past | sister's tears |  |  | sister's eyes |  | like rivers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Location |

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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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