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title: But as the mice were going over, the straw slipped away and fell int… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the mice were going over, the straw slipped away and fell into the water, and the six mice all fell in and were drowned. Who acts: mice, straw, six mice. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, with its depende
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 20

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But as the mice were going over, the straw slipped away and fell into the water, and the six mice all fell in and were drowned.

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**Who acts:** mice, straw, six mice · **What happens:** go over, slip away, fall, fall in, drown · **To what, where:** water

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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 (mice, straw, six mice), 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:pg2591:18:20
# text = But as the mice were going over, the straw slipped away and fell into the water, and the six mice all fell in and were drowned.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go over** | past · progressive | the mice |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slip away** | past | the straw |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the straw *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the water *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result |
| 4 | **fall in** | past | the six mice |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **drown** | past · passive | the six mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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