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title: The sausage started in search of wood, the bird made the fire, and t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sausage started in search of wood, the bird made the fire, and the mouse put on the pot, and then these two waited till the sausage returned with the fuel for the following day. Who acts: sausage, bird, mouse. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausa
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 14

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The sausage started in search of wood, the bird made the fire, and the mouse put on the pot, and then these two waited till the sausage returned with the fuel for the following day.

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**Who acts:** sausage, bird, mouse · **What happens:** start, make, put, wait, return, follow · **To what, where:** search, fire, mouse, pot, sausage, wood

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sausage, bird, mouse), 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:pg2591:21:14
# text = The sausage started in search of wood, the bird made the fire, and the mouse put on the pot, and then these two waited till the sausage returned with the fuel for the following day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
27	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	till	till	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	amod	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the sausage |  |  | search of wood |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | past | the bird | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 3 | **put** | participle |  | the mouse *not said here* |  | the pot |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pot=Destination |
| 4 | **wait** | past | the mouse |  |  |  | till the sausage; then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **return** | participle |  | the sausage *not said here* |  |  | day | with the fuel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **search** |  |  | wood |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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