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title: So she went to the brook which flowed through the garden, and drew u… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So she went to the brook which flowed through the garden, and drew up a pail of water full of little fish; and, at night, when the young Prince was asleep, his bride drew away the covering and poured the pail of cold water and the little fishes over him, so that they slipped all about him. Who acts:
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 171

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So she went to the brook which flowed through the garden, and drew up a pail of water full of little fish; and, at night, when the young Prince was asleep, his bride drew away the covering and poured the pail of cold water and the little fishes over him, so that they slipped all about him.

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**Who acts:** last, brook, young Prince, bride, chambermaids · **What happens:** go, flow, draw up, be, draw away, pour · **To what, where:** brook, garden, pail, covering

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, brook, young Prince, bride), 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:pg11027:9:171
# text = So she went to the brook which flowed through the garden, and drew up a pail of water full of little fish; and, at night, when the young Prince was asleep, his bride drew away the covering and poured the pail of cold water and the little fishes over him, so that they slipped all about him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
40	away	away	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
54	over	over	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	60	mark	_	_
58	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	fixed	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
61	all	all	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
62	about	about	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | last |  |  | the brook |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to brook=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **flow** | past | the brook |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Location |
| 3 | **draw up** | past | last *not said here* | a pail of water |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the young Prince |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **draw away** | past | Prince's bride | the covering |  |  |  | away *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covering=Theme |
| 6 | **pour** | past | Prince's bride *not said here* | the pail of cold water and the little fishes |  |  |  | over Prince | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Patient |
| 7 | **slip** | past | chambermaids *= chambermaid* |  |  |  |  | about Prince | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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