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title: Oh, how the poor little sister grieved, as she was forced to fetch t… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, how the poor little sister grieved, as she was forced to fetch the water, and fast the tears ran down her cheeks! " Who acts: poor little sister, sister, tears. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 82

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Oh, how the poor little sister grieved, as she was forced to fetch the water, and fast the tears ran down her cheeks! "

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**Who acts:** poor little sister, sister, tears · **What happens:** grieve, force, fetch, fast, run down · **To what, where:** sister, water, cheeks

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little sister, 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:pg11027:8:82
# text = Oh, how the poor little sister grieved, as she was forced to fetch the water, and fast the tears ran down her cheeks! "
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fast	fast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | participle | the poor little sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **force** | past · passive |  | sister |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | sister *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 4 | **fast** | past | the poor little sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run down** | past | the tears | sister's cheeks |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cheek=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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