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title: When the water in the kettle was boiling, the cook went into the bed… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the water in the kettle was boiling, the cook went into the bedroom to fetch Fundevogel and throw him into it. Who acts: water, boiling cook. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, with its dependency tree and t
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 103

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When the water in the kettle was boiling, the cook went into the bedroom to fetch Fundevogel and throw him into it.

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**Who acts:** water, boiling cook · **What happens:** boil, go, fetch, throw · **To what, where:** bedroom, Fundevogel, water, kettle

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, boiling cook), 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:pg2591:18:103
# text = When the water in the kettle was boiling, the cook went into the bedroom to fetch Fundevogel and throw him into it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	Fundevogel	Fundevogel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | past · progressive | the water in the kettle |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | the boiling cook |  |  | the bedroom |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bedroom=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the boiling cook *not said here* | Fundevogel |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fundevogel=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | infinitive | the boiling cook *not said here* | water |  | kettle |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into it=Result |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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